Asahi Glass Company, Limited

Haruhisa Miyake

Tatsuro Asawa

Yoshio Sugaya

Masaaki Yamabe

Hiroshi Ukihashi

Kazuo Umemura

Manabu Suhara

Masayuki Saito

Koji Suzuki

Tomoki Gunjima

Atsushi Watakabe

Eiichi Nishi

Ichiro Terada

Seitoku Kaya

Masami Yamashita

Hiroaki Ito

Ryoji Yamada

Yoshihiko Saito

Kazutoshi Sugitani

Hiroshi Mori

Kazuo Kato

Tetsuji Shimohira

Atsushi Funaki

Isamu Kaneko

Yoshiaki Higuchi

Yutaka Furukawa

Shun-ichi Kodama

Teruo Takakura

Junjiro Iwamoto

Kazuo Hamazaki

Masayuki Tamura

Michio Hisasue

Tsutomu Naganuma

Ken Komatsu

Masahiko Ichimura

Jun-ichi Tayanagi

Hirofumi Horie

Iku Saito

Seiji Shin-ya

Misaki Tada

Misaki Kanazawa

Tutomu Naganuma

Electronic article having fluoropolymer thin film

An adhesive fluorine-containing polymer comprising a fluorine-containing polymer having hydrogen atoms bonded to carbon atoms of its main chain and a grafting compound having a linking group capable of grafting to the fluorine-containing polymer and a functional group capable of providing an adhesive property, grafted to the fluorine-containing polymer.

Adhesive fluorine-containing polymer and laminate employing it

A heterogeneous ion exchange membrane comprising an ion exchange resin and a binder polymer, wherein the binder polymer is a polymer containing at least a mixture comprising low density polyethylene and ethylene-propylene rubber or ethylene-propylene-diene rubber.

Heterogeneous ion exchange membrane and process for its production

Porous ion exchanger and method for producing deionized water

A cation exchange membrane for electrolysis, which comprises at least 2 layers of fluorine-containing polymer films having sulfonic acid groups, wherein a first layer facing a cathode is made of a three component polymer of the following monomers (A), (B) and (C) and has a thickness of from 50 to 150 .mu.m, and a second layer has a thickness of from 50 to 300 .mu.m:

Cation exchange membrane for electrolysis and process for producing

Method for producing a fluorinated polymer

A bipolar membrane comprising a cation exchange membrane, an anion exchange membrane and an inorganic ion exchanger layer having a thickness of from 0.01 to 100 .mu.m present at the interface between the cation exchange membrane and the anion exchange membrane.

Bipolar membrane

A method for producing an acid and/or an alkali metal hydroxide, from a neutral salt by electrodialysis employing a bipolar membrane and an anion exchange membrane and/or a cation exchange membrane, wherein as the anion exchange membrane, an anion exchange membrane made of a polymer having repeating units of the formula: ##STR1## wherein each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having up to two carbon atoms, and having an ion-exchange capacity of from 1 to 5 meq/g dry resin, is used.

Method for producing an acid and/or alkali metal hydroxide

A method for hydrogen ion-selective electrodialysis, wherein from an aqueous solution containing hydrogen ions on an anode side, the hydrogen ions are selectively permitted to permeate through a membrane to a cathode side, wherein the membrane is a double layer ion exchange membrane comprising an anion exchanger layer on the anode side and a cation exchanger layer on the cathode side, and the anion exchanger layer has an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 4 meq/g dry resin, a fixed ion concentration of from 1 to 10 meq/g H.sub.2 O, a thickness of from 0.1 to 150 .mu.m and an electrical resistance of at most 1 .OMEGA..multidot.cm.sup.2 as measured in a 0.5 mol/l sulfuric acid solution.

Method for hydrogen ion-selective electrodialysis

A method for separating and recovering an acid, which comprises contacting to one side of a diffusion dialysis membrane an acid solution containing an acid having an acid radical with a formula weight of at most 200 and impurities and to the other side of the membrane water or a dilute acid solution, to separate and recover the acid in the solution, wherein the diffusion dialysis membrane comprises a cation exchange membrane having certain specific properties or comprises a main layer of an anion exchanger and a surface layer of the cation exchange membrane having certain specific properties formed on the main layer at the side of which is contact with the acid solution.

Method for separating and recovering an acid

A cation exchange fluoropolymer membrane comprising at least three integrally laminated layers including a main layer made of a perfluorocarbon polymer having carboxylic acid groups as its ion exchange groups with an ion exchange capacity of from 1.4 to 2.0 meq/g dry resin and having a thickness of from 50 to 250 .mu.m, a sulfonic acid film surface layer formed on one side of said main layer, made of a perfluorocarbon polymer having sulfonic acid groups as its ion exchange groups with an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 1.5 meq/g dry resin and having a thickness of from 5 to 50 m, and a carboxylic acid film surface layer formed on the other side of said main layer, made of a perfluorcarbon polymer having carboxylic acid groups as its ion exchange groups with an ion exchange capacity of from 0.5 to 1.3 meq/g dry resin and having a thickness of from 5 to 50 .mu.m, said sulfonic acid film surface layer and carboxylic acid film surface layer constituting the outer-most layers, respectively.

Four layer cation exchange fluoropolymer membrane

A method for producing an alkali metal hydroxide by electrolysis in an electrolytic cell comprising an anode compartment and a cathode compartment, which comprises supplying an alkali metal chloride to the anode compartment and water or a dilute alkali metal hydroxide to the cathode compartment, wherein a fluorine-containing cation exchange membrane comprising a first outer layer of a perfluorocarbon polymer having --SO.sub.3 M groups (wherein M is an alkali metal) with a thickness of at least 5 .mu.m, and a second layer of a perfluorocarbon polymer having --CO.sub.2 M groups (wherein M is an alkali metal) and a water content of from 2 to 7% by weight in a 45% wt % NaOH aqueous solution with a thickness of at least 5 .mu.m, the water content of the first layer being higher than that of the second layer, is disposed with the first layer facing the cathode compartment.

Method for producing an alkali metal hydroxide and electrolytic cell

A fluorosilicone polymer comprising from 30 to 99.95 mol % of units of a cyclic trisiloxane of the formula (a) --R.sub.f CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 (R.sup.1)SiO--.sub.3, from 0.05 to 10 mol % of units of a cyclic siloxane of the formula (b) --R.sup.2 R.sup.3 SiO--.sub.m, and from 0 to 69.95 mol % of units of a cyclic siloxane of the formula (c) --R.sup.4 R.sup.5 SiO--.sub.n, wherein each of R.sup.1, R.sup.3, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 is a monovalent organic group, R.sub.f is a perfluoroalkyl group having from 4 to 6 carbon atoms, R.sup.2 is an alkenyl group, and each of m and n is an integer of from 3 to 6.

Fluorosilicone polymer, processes for the production thereof and

An electrolytic cation exchange membrane which comprises a first film made of a fluorinated polymer having cation exchange groups and containing a fibrillated tetrafluoroethylene polymer and a second film laminated thereon, made of a fluorinated polymer having carboxylic acid groups as its ion exchange groups, said first film having a greater thickness and smaller specific electric resistance than said second film.

Electrolytic cation exchange membrane

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Yokohama, Japan

Haruhisa Miyake