The Dow Chemical Company

Dow Global Technolgoies LLC

Thomas D Gregory

Steven Rosenberg

Carl W Hurtig

Harvey D Ledbetter

Kenneth J Quackenbush

Ronald J Hoffman

Michael S Paquette

Richard C Winterton

David R Wilson

William Jack Kruper, Jr

Zenon Lysenko

Ravi B Shankar

Peter M Margl

Deidre A Strand

George J Quarderer, Jr

Jing Jin

Ying Hung So

Houxiang Tang

Andrew J Pasztor, Jr

Matthew Martin Yonkey

Shu Chen

Kenneth J Stutts

Jamie L Cohen

Mark D Newsham

Jeremy R Stajdl

Sanjeev Katti

Richard Stringfield

Shu Tao Chen

The present invention relates to a continuous-feed furnace assembly and processes for preparing and continuously thermally exfoliating graphite oxide to give a highly exfoliated graphite.

Continuous-feed furnace assembly and processes for preparing and continuously thermally exfoliating graphite oxide

A battery electrolyte solution contains from 0.01 to 80% by weight of an aromatic phosphorus compound. The aromatic phosphorus compound provides increased thermal stability for the electrolyte, helping to reduce thermal degradation, thermal runaway reactions and the possibility of burning. The aromatic phosphorus compound has little adverse impact on the electrical properties of the battery, and in some cases actually improves battery performance.

Battery electrolyte solutions containing aromatic phosphorus compounds

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a graphite oxide while purging chlorine dioxide. The invention process employs starting materials comprising a sulfuric acid, a nitric acid, a chlorate salt, and a graphite and further employs an inert purge gas.

Process for manufacture of graphite oxide with purge of chlorine dioxide

A solid bed adsorptive process for separating a seed oil into two substantially pure triglyceride fractions. The process involves contacting a seed oil, such as castor oil, preferably as a concentrate, with an adsorbent in a bed, the adsorbent having a particle size greater than about 40 microns, and thereafter contacting the adsorbent with a desorbent material, preferably under minimal flow conditions, to obtain a raffinate output stream containing predominantly a second triglyceride and an extract output stream containing predominantly a first triglyceride. Purified fatty acid triglyceride esters obtainable from castor, vernonia, and lesquerella plant oils provide renewable, non-petroleum-based sources of chemical feedstocks.

Separation of plant oil triglyceride mixtures by solid bed adsorption

The invention is a condensation polymerization reaction in which functionally terminated polybenzazole ligomers are reacted in a solvent acid at a temperature of at least 150.degree. C. and a shear of at least about 10 sec..sup.-1 under conditions so that the desired molecular weight is reached in no more than about 4 hours. The oligomers may be, for example, derived from the reaction of 4,6-diaminoresorcinol bis(hydrochloride) and terephthalic acid. The concentration of oligomers is high enough so that the reaction mixture contains liquid crystalline domains.

Rapid advancement of molecular weight in polybenzazole oligomer dopes

Polybenzazole polymers can be synthesized rapidly in large quantities at high molecular weight and high concentration by a two-step process of forming oligomers in a batch reactor and advancing the molecular weight of the polymer in an extruder.

Semi-continuous process for synthesis of polybenzazole polymers

It is advantageous to prepare oligomers of polybenzazole polymers by reaction of AA-PBZ monomer with an excess of BB-PBZ monomer. The resulting oligomer dopes may be stored at a temperature at which they remain pumpable until such time as the dope can be advanced to higher molecular weight by adding additional AA-PBZ monomer. The molecular weight of the polymer may be adjusted by controlling the amount of chain extender and/or chain terminator added to oligomer mixtures as they are advanced to final molecular weight.

Staged polymerization of polybenzazole polymers

Polybenzazole polymers can be advanced rapidly to high molecular weight at relatively high temperatures and high shear in a dehydrating solvent acid.

Process for the preparation of asymmetrical alkaline earth metal organoborates and organoaluminates represented by the formula I: ##STR1## and asymmetrical alkaline earth metal organoarsenates and organophosphates represented by the formula II: ##STR2## wherein Z is selected from the group consisting of boron and aluminum; X is selected from the group consisting of phosphorus and arsenic; M is an alkaline earth metal; and in which R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 are independently selected from alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, and cyano with the proviso that R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 are not all the same.

Process for the preparation of asymmetrical alkaline earth metal

Alkaline earth metal anode cells having an intercalation cathode, a nonaqueous liquid electrolyte comprising (a) an organic solvent, for instance, an ether, an ester, a sulfone, an organic sulfide, an organic sulfate, a tertiary amine, an organic nitrite, and an organic nitrate, and (b) at least one of an electrolytically active alkaline earth metal salt comprising an organometallic alkaline earth metal salt represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein Z is selected from the group consisting of boron and aluminum; X is selected from the group consisting of phosphorus and arsenic; M is an alkaline earth metal; and in which R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 are radicals independently selected from the following groups: alkyl, aryl, alkaryl, aralkyl, alkenyl, cycloalkyl, allyl, heterocyclic alkyl, and cyano, with the proviso that R.sub.1 -R.sub.6 cannot be all alkyl or all aryl and triarylalkylborate or aluminate anions, and trialkylarylborate or aluminate anions are excluded and M represents an alkaline earth metal.

Alkaline earth metal anode-containing cell having electrolyte of

Included is an invention, which in one aspect, is a process for preparing a product of an alkaline earth metal compound having at least one BVB-heteromoeity and by-product of an alkali metal substance comprising operating an electrochemical cell, said cell having

Alkaline earth metal compounds and alkali metal substances via

Included is a process for electrodepositing a high purity metallic containing alkaline earth metal on a conductive substrate comprising operating an electrochemical cell having

High purity alkaline earths via electrodeposition

Substituted amino aromatic compounds such as 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid are prepared by electrolytically reducing the corresponding nitro aromatic compound in a basic medium at temperatures below 60.degree. C. and current densities greater than 50 milliamps per square centimeter. The aminohydroxybenzoic acids are useful in the preparation of polybenzoxazoles which are used to make fibers and composites having high strength and thermal stability.

Electrochemical synthesis of substituted aromatic amines in basic media

An anionically conductive polymer electrolyte, solid at ambient temperature, containing a salt of the formula:

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Thomas D Gregory