The present invention provides an anisotropically porous membrane which is obtained according to a wet process, which comprises a substantially non-sulfonated aromatic polyether ketone having a crystallinity of 10 percent by weight or higher, and which has open pores having an average pore diameter of 0.02 to 30.00 .mu.m on both surfaces of said membrane at an open pore ratio of 7 to 90 percent. In accordance with the present invention, a porous crystalline aromatic polyether ketone membrane is ...

Porous thermoset dielectric materials having low dielectric constants useful in electronic component manufacture are provided along with methods of preparing the porous thermoset dielectric materials. Also provided are methods of forming integrated circuits containing such porous thermoset dielectric material.

A porous composite laminate material comprises a layer (4) of expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane, and a layer (2) of non-expanded porous PTFE attached thereto. The non-expanded porous PTFE layer may be a sintered porous PTFE produced by sintering granular-type PTFE particles to form a porous integral network of interconnected particles; and may be produced in situ by spray application onto the membrane followed by baking. Modifiers including unsintered fine powder PTFE, thermoplast...

Porous articles consisting virtually entirely of beryllium metal are prepared by using iodine as a fugitive pore former. An admixture of beryllium powder and crystalline iodine is pressed into a compact and then heated in vacuum at a temperature of about 100.degree. C. to sublime the iodine. The compact is thereafter sintered at a temperature of about 1000.degree. C.

The invention relates to a porous electrode at least containing a porous catalytic layer, which layer at least contains 3-30 parts by weight of mouldable polymeric binder, 50-94 parts by weight of carbon particles and 3-47 parts by weight of hard hydrophobic polymer particles.

A porous membrane which is composed of cellulose acetate and acrylic polymer, for example, poly(methyl methacrylate) or methyl acrylate-methyl methacrylate copolymer, is highly suitable for plasmapheresis. A polymer alloy consisting of cellulose acetate, acrylic polymer and a small amount of cellulose nitrate has a good spinnability to produce a hollow fiber type membrane and has an excellent biocompatibility.

A polyamide having an equilibrium water absorption of not more than 10% is used as a main material. As a polyamide having an equilibrium water absorption of not.more than 10%, for example, a polyamide comprising a dicarboxylic acid component comprising 60-100 mol % of terephthalic acid and a diamine component comprising 60-100 mol % of 1,9-nonanediamine and/or 2-methyl-1,8-octanediamine is used. As a result, a porous membrane showing extremely small dimensional change even after a hot water trea...

A method of making a porous refractory article and a dispersion of particles in a liquid carrier, the method involving forming a dispersion of particles in a liquid carrier, introducing gas into the dispersion, removing the liquid carrier to provide a solid article having pores derived from the bubbles and wherein the dispersion has a critical viscosity below the level at which the introduction of gas cannot take place and above the level which entrapped gas bubbles will tend to escape and with ...

The present invention provides a nanoporous fiber being substantially free from coarse pores and having homogeneously dispersed nanopores, unlike conventional porous fibers. A porous fiber has pores each having a diameter of 100 nm or less, in which the area ratio of pores each having a diameter of 200 nm or more to the total cross section of the fiber is 1.5% or less, and the pores are unconnected pores, or a porous fiber has pores each having a diameter of 100 nm or less, in which the area rat...

A method of coating porous webs wherein porous materials having a range of pore sizes are given desired characteristics by selective depostion in the large pores of particulate treatment agents. Thus some characteristics are achievable by control variation of pore size distribution (e.g. sample, uniformity, liquid filtration properties) while others depend on specific attributes of the treatment agents (e.g. response to calendaring, catalysis, security marking adhesion properties).