Patent ID: 8048938

Claim:
A method for supplying thermal control components comprising: (a) preparing a reflective film having a front side, an emissivity and an absorptivity, where the emissivity is greater than the absorptivity from the front side, where the reflective film includes a polymeric layer, and where the polymeric layer includes a polyimide polymer produced by: (i) reacting at least one acid monomer with at least one diamine monomer to form a polyamic acid backbone, where the monomers are selected such that the polyamic acid backbone includes a non-terminal attachment point; (ii) after step (i), imidizing the polyamic acid backbone to form a polyimide polymer backbone; and (iii) after step (ii), attaching an oligomeric silsesquioxane (OS) compound to the attachment point on the polyimide polymer backbone, such that the OS compound is connected to the polyimide polymer backbone.