Owing to their important application in the production of high performance materials, aromatic diamines have received interest in many areas for several years. However, most of the polymers derivated from diamines show poor processability due to their rigid backbone. Although much effort has been made, a balance between the solvent (or heat)-resistance and processability of the polymers still needs to be achieved. In this contribution, a new aromatic diamine is reported, which has both reactive amine groups and thermo-polymerizable benzocyclobutene moieties. Starting from the diamine can not only give the corresponding polymers, such as polyamides, polyimides, and polyurethanes, but can also provide new structural materials through the post-polymerization of the polymers. It is found that adding diamine into a conventional polyimide system can greatly improve the properties of the polyimide, such as T g , coeffi cient of thermal expansion, tensile strength, and storage modulus. When the content of the diamine is in the range ≈ 5-10 mol%, the tensile strength of the conventional polyimide is increased by up to 30%. The highest T g (> 400 °C) is observed when the content of the diamine is 40 mol%. the polymers derivated from diamines show poor processability, mainly due to the inherent rigid backbone of the diamine. For example, polyamides [ 1 ] based on aromatic diamines are insoluble in common organic solvents. Moreover, polyimides [2][3][4][5] derived from rigid diamines are infusible and partly soluble in solvents with strong polarity. In order to reduce the rigidity of aromatic diamines, a general strategy is to attach side chains to the backbone of the diamines [ 6 ] or introduce fl exible ether bonds to the molecules. [ 7 ] Nevertheless, an improvement in rigidity is usually accompanied by a decrease in the solvent resistance and heat resistance of the polymers. Hence, exploration and development of new aromatic diamines with excellent properties is necessary.Recently, we have found that postpolymerization is an effi cient and simple way to realize the balance