Abstract: The invention relates to a coating based on a fluoro acrylate polymer latex comprising inorganic particles, said coating exhibiting a very good compromise between, on the one hand, dry adhesion and adhesion in the wet state, and, on the other hand, between adhesion and ionic conductivity. This coating is intended for a separator application, in particular for Li-ion batteries. The invention also relates to a Li-ion battery comprising a separator covered with such a coating.

Abstract: The invention relates to a separator for non-aqueous-type electrochemical devices that has been coated with a polymer binder composition having polymer particles of two different sizes, one fraction of the polymer particles with a weight average particle size of less than 1.5 micron, and the other fraction of the polymer particles with a weight average particle size of greater than 1.5 microns. The bi-modal polymer particles provide an uneven coating surface that creates voids between the separator and adjoining electrodes, allowing for expansion of the battery components during the charging and discharging cycle, with little or no increase in the size of the battery itself. The bi-modal polymer coating can be used in non-aqueous-type electrochemical devices, such as batteries and electric double layer capacitors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a silicon graphite anode comprising an aqueous binder, to its method of preparation and to its use in a Li-ion battery. Another subject matter of the invention is the Li-ion batteries manufactured by incorporating this electrode material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a separator for non-aqueous-type electrochemical devices that has been coated with a polymer binder composition having polymer particles of two different sizes, one fraction of the polymer particles with a weight average particle size of less than 1.5 micron, and the other fraction of the polymer particles with a weight average particle size of greater than 1.5 microns. The bi-modal polymer particles provide an uneven coating surface that creates voids between the separator and adjoining electrodes, allowing for expansion of the battery components during the charging and discharging cycle, with little or no increase in the size of the battery itself. The bi-modal polymer coating can be used in non-aqueous-type electrochemical devices, such as batteries and electric double layer capacitors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fluoropolymer coating composition that can be used, for example, in coating electrodes and/or separators in electrochemical devices. The fluoropolymer coating composition preferably contains multiple fluoropolymer phases. The coated electrodes and/or separators have both excellent wet adhesion, excellent dry adhesion, and low leachables. Each of the fluoropolymer phases contains polymers having at least 10 weight percent, of a common fluoromonomer, making the polymer phases compatible with each other, and allowing for the phases to be distributed fairly homogeneously on a macroscopic level throughout the composition and dried coating formed from the composition.

Abstract: The invention relates to fluorinated-acrylic thermoplastic compositions, to powder coatings made of such compositions, and to a process for preparing said powder coatings.

Abstract: A polyamide-grafted polyolefin composition in which the grafting rate of the composition is between 41% and 70% by weight. Also, a thermoplastic composition including a polyolefin backbone comprising a residue of at least one unsaturated monomer (X) and a plurality of polyamide grafts, in which: the polyamide grafts are attached to the polyolefin backbone by the residue of the unsaturated monomer (X) comprising a functional group capable of reacting by a condensation reaction with a polyamide having at least one amine end and/or at least one carboxylic acid end, the residue of the unsaturated monomer (X) is attached to the backbone by grafting or copolymerization, wherein the polyamide grafts represent from 41% to 70%, preferably from 45% to 70%, by mass of said polyamide-grafted polymer. Also, a thermoplastic film for encapsulating and/or protecting the back (“backsheet”) of a photovoltaic module that includes said polyamide-grafted polyolefin composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a poly(lactic acid) composition with improved impact resistance, comprising, by weight: 60% to 97% of poly(lactic acid) (PLA), and 3% to 40% of a mixture of compounds A and B in which A is a copolymer of ethylene and of an unsaturated monomer bearing at least one epoxide or carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid anhydride function, and optionally of alkyl (meth)acrylate, and B is a copolymer of ethylene and of alkyl (meth)acrylate, wherein said mixture having a wt % (A)/wt % (A+B) ratio of between 0.10 and 0.49. The present invention also relates to the manufacture of parts or objects using these compositions.

Abstract: The present invention concerns compositions made from fluorinated polymers and the uses of same in order to produce transparent monolayer or multilayer films intended to protect various substrates. The polymer composition consists of at least one polymer made from vinylidene fluoride, at least one acrylic polymer and at least one UV absorber, the mass ratio of said fluorinated polymer being 60 and 90%, the mass ratio of said UV absorber being from 0.5 to 5% and the molecular weight of the latter is greater than 500 g/mol.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical scatterer having a scattering portion able to be passed through by the light flux emitted by a point light source, when said optical scatterer is mounted on said point light source. According to the invention, characteristically, said scattering portion is formed from a solid foam comprising at least one fluoropolymer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fluorinated composition and a fluorinated film having properties that make it suitable for use outside, especially in the agricultural sector. The film according to the invention is a single-layer polymer film comprising a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) matrix and at least one impact modifier having a polyorganosiloxane core and at least one thermoplastic shell, in which the weight content of impact modifier varies between 2.5% and less than 40%. According to one embodiment variant, the invention relates to multilayer films comprising at least one layer of said fluorinated film and at least one layer of unmodified PVDF.

Abstract: A polyamide-grafted polyolefin composition in which the grafting rate of the composition is between 41% and 70% by weight. Also, a thermoplastic composition including a polyolefin backbone comprising a residue of at least one unsaturated monomer (X) and a plurality of polyamide grafts, in which: the polyamide grafts are attached to the polyolefin backbone by the residue of the unsaturated monomer (X) comprising a functional group capable of reacting by a condensation reaction with a polyamide having at least one amine end and/or at least one carboxylic acid end, the residue of the unsaturated monomer (X) is attached to the backbone by grafting or copolymerization, wherein the polyamide grafts represent from 41% to 70%, preferably from 45% to 70%, by mass of said polyamide-grafted polymer. Also, a thermoplastic film for encapsulating and/or protecting the back (“backsheet”) of a photovoltaic module that includes said polyamide-grafted polyolefin composition.

Abstract: An encapsulant for a photovoltaic module, intended to coat a photovoltaic cell, including at least two adjacent thermoplastic layers together forming a core-skin assembly: the skin layer is a polyamide graft polymer including a polyolefin backbone representing 50 wt % to 95 wt % of the polyamide graft polymer, containing a residue of at least one unsaturated monomer (X) and at least one polyamide graft, representing 5 wt % to 50 wt % of said polyamide graft polymer; the polyolefin backbone and the polyamide graft of the skin layer are chosen so that the polyamide graft polymer has a flow temperature greater than or equal to 75° C. and less than or equal to 160° C., this flow temperature being defined as the highest temperature out of the melting temperature and the glass transition temperature of the polyamide graft and of the polyolefin backbone.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an impact modifier and a device and a method for the production thereof, as well as to a method for preparing a thermoset material, or a thermoset material precursor, from the impact modifier. The impact modifier comprises at least one copolymer selected from A-B-A, A-B, and A-B-C block copolymers in which: each block is linked to the other by means of a covalent bond or an intermediate molecule that is connected to one of the blocks by a covalent bond and to the other block by another covalent bond; A is a PMMA homopolymer or a copolymer of methyl methacrylate, A preferably being compatible with the resin; C is either (i) a PMMA homopolymer or a copolymer of methyl methacrylate, or (ii) a polymer based on monomers or a mixture of vinyl monomers, and blocks A and C are identical; and B is incompatible or partially compatible with the thermoset resin and incompatible with block A and optional block C.

Abstract: An encapsulant for a photovoltaic module, intended to coat a photovoltaic cell, including at least two adjacent thermoplastic layers forming a core-skin assembly, wherein the skin layer consists of a polyamide-grafted polymer including a polyolefin backbone, representing from 50% to 95% by weight of the polyamide-grafted polymer, containing a residue of at least one unsaturated monomer (X) and at least one polyamide graft, representing from 5% to 50% by weight of polyamide-grafted polymer, the core layer including a polyethylene chosen from a homopolymer of ethylene or a copolymer including at least 50 mol % of ethylene and one or more comonomers. Also, a photovoltaic module incorporating such an encapsulant.

Abstract: A double-layer thermoplastic film of a photovoltaic module, including two layers, one forms the encapsulator and the other forms the backsheet, wherein: a) the encapsulator is a layer including at least one polyolefin containing a polyethylene selected from a homopolymer of ethylene or a copolymer comprising at least 50 mol % of ethylene and at least one comonomer and between 0% and 100% of a polyamide grafted polymer comprising a polyolefin trunk that represents between 50 mass % and 95 mass % of the polyamide grafted polymer containing a radical of at least one unsaturated monomer (X) and at least one polyamide graft that represents between 5 mass % and 50 mass % of said polyamide grafted polymer; and b) the backsheet comprises a layer formed from a polyamide grafted polymer that is identical to that of the encapsulator except that it has a flow temperature higher than 160° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition based on an impact-resistant thermoplastic polyamide resin, comprising, as a blend—from 60 to 98 wt % of polyamide resin (A) and—from 2 to 40 wt % of a blend of at least one graft copolymer with polyamide blocks (B) composed of a polyolefin backbone and at least one polyamide graft in which the grafts are attached to the backbone by the residues of an unsaturated monomer (X) having a functional group capable of reacting with an amine-terminated polyamide, the residues of the unsaturated monomer (X) being attached to the backbone by grafting or copolymerization via its double bond, and of a non-reactive ethylenic polymer (C) that is miscible with (B) and has a density of below 0.960 g/cm3.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite having improved impact resistance. According to the invention, this composite is obtained from a composition comprising the following polymers: polylactic acid (PLA) which forms the matrix; at least one polyamide forming a dispersed phase within the PLA matrix; at least one functionalized polyolefin (A) comprising alpha-olefin units and epoxy, carboxylic acid or carboxylic acid anhydride units; and, optionally, at least one unfunctionnalized polyolefin (B).

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a process for producing polyamide, copolyamide, polyolefin, copolyester amide or fluorocarbon resin powder particles on to the surface of which has been grafted at least one functionalized grafting monomer, characterized in that it comprises: a) a step of blending the polyamide or copolyamide powder particles with the functionalized grafting monomer; followed by b) a step of irradiating the powder impregnated with functionalized grafting monomer resulting from a) with photons (?-radiation) or electrons (?-radiation), with a dose ranging from 0.5 to 15 Mrad. The invention also relates to the particles grafted in this way and to the compositions containing such particles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to thermoplastic polymers modified by means of acrylic block copolymers functionalized by hydrophilic monomers. The subject matter of the invention is a blend of polymers comprising, as matrix polymer, a thermoplastic material which comprises flexible segments of polyether or polyester type and comprising at least one acrylic block copolymer dispersed in said matrix polymer and miscible with the latter, said block copolymer comprising at least one hydrophilic monomer. The modified thermoplastic materials according to the invention maintain very good properties of transparency and, in addition, acquire new properties, in particular mechanical properties, such as a better mechanical strength in the molten state during conversion operations specific to thermoplastic materials, such as extrusion, blow molding or calendering operations.