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US4973391A Expired / Lapsed US ⏱️ 0.0 years remaining

Composite polymers of polyaniline with metal phthalocyanine and polyaniline with organic sulfonic acid and nafion

Assignee: Osaka Gas Co Ltd
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Filing: 1988-08-30
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Granted: 1990-11-27
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Expires: 2008-08-30
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Abstract

Abstract The present invention relates to a process for the production of an electrochromic electrically conductive composite membrane, which process comprises: (a) combining aniline and metal phthalocyanine in dilute hydrochloric acid; and (b) applying to the solution of step (a) a constant current density of between about 0.05 and 0.2 milliamperes/cm 2 for between about 1 to 10 minutes on an electrode selected from a transparent platinum electrode or an ITO electrode to produce the improved electrically conductive electrochromic membrane. The present invention also relates to a process for the production of an electrically conductive composite membrane which comprises: (a) combining aniline, organic sulfonic acid and NAFION® all in the acid form and electropolymerizing the aqueous solution to obtain the polyaniline thin film. The electrochromic electrically conductive composite membrane produced by the process is described which is colorless when subjected to between about -0.3 V to 0 V and green to blue when subjected to between 0 V and +0.6 V. These films are useful in electrochromic displays.

Inventors

  • 👤 Marc J. Madou
  • 👤 Takaaki Otagawa

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —
Jurisdiction US
Data Source google_patents
Last Synchronized 2026-10-31 20:47
CPC Classifications
H; H01; H01M; H01M4/00; H01M4/02; H01M4/36; H01M4/60; B; B01; B01J; B01J2219/00; B01J2219/00274; B01J2219/00277; B01J2219/00279; B01J2219/00306; B01J2219/00313; B01J2219/00315; B01J2219/00317; B01J2219/00583; B01J2219/00603; B01J2219/00659; B01J2219/00709; B01J2219/00713; C; C40; C40B; C40B60/00; C40B60/14; Y; Y02; Y02E; Y02E60/00; Y02E60/10

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 11
Claim 1
Independent Claim 84 words
An electrochemical process for the production of an electrochromic electrically conductive composite film, which process comprises: (a) contacting in an aqueous acid solution, aniline in the acid form with a metal phthalocyanine sulfonic acid in the acid form, (b) applying to the aqueous acid solution of step (a) a constant current density of between about 0.01 and 5.0 mA/cm 2 for between about 1 and 10 minutes, and (c) recovering the electrochromic thin film having improved mechanical properties and improved color characteristics and amplitude.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim 84 words
An electrochemical process for the production of an electrochromic electrically conductive composite film, which process comprises: (a) contacting in an aqueous acid solution, aniline in the acid form with a metal phthalocyanine sulfonic acid in the acid form, (b) applying to the aqueous acid solution of step (a) a constant current density of between about 0.01 and 5.0 mA/cm 2 for between about 1 and 10 minutes, and (c) recovering the electrochromic thin film having improved mechanical properties and improved color characteristics and amplitude.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim 28 words
The process of claim 1 wherein in step (a) wherein an acid is present, and the metal in the phthalocyanine is selected from nickel, cobalt, iron or manganese.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim 52 words
The process of claim 2 wherein in step (a): the acid is hydrochloric acid is present in between about 0.01 and 3 molar (M), the aniline is present in between about 0.01 and 1 M and the metal phthalocyanine as the tetrasodium salt is added in between about 0.1 to 2.0 mM.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim 30 words
The process of claim 3 wherein the hydrochloric acid is present in about 1M, the metal phthalocyanine is present in about 1mM; and the aniline is present in about 1M.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim 34 words
The process of claim 4 wherein the electropolymerization in step (b) is conducted by applying a constant current density of between about 0.05 to 2 mA/cm 2 for between about 1 and 10 minutes.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim 18 words
The process of claim 5 wherein the current density is between about 0.1 and 1 mA/cm 2 .
Claim 8
Dependent Claim 18 words
The process of claim 2 wherein the metal phthalocyanine is nickel phthalocyanine tetrasulfonic acid in the acid form.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim 37 words
The process of claim 1 wherein the step (a), the metal phthalocyanine sulfonic acid is a tetrasulfonic acid added as the sodium salt and sufficient acid is present to obtain the tetraacid form of the tetrasulfonic acid.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim 12 words
The process of claim 8 wherein the acid present is hydrochloric acid.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim 41 words
The process of claim 1 wherein the step (a) the metal phthalocyanine sulfonic acid is a metal phthalocyanine tetrasulfonic acid in the acid form is first obtained by prior ion exchange of the tetrasodium salt of the metal phthalocyanine tetrasulfonic acid.

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