Abstract: Disclosed is an ink-jet recording material comprising a polyolefin resin-coated paper support and at least one ink-receptive layer containing fumed silica provided on the support, wherein a surface of the support on which the ink-receptive layer is provided has been subjected to work into slightly rough surface so that 75 degrees specular glossiness according to JIS P 8142 is from 30% to less than 70%.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material for back lit use having a light transmitting support and an ink-receptive layer provided on the support, wherein the ink-receptive layer comprises a hydrophilic polymer and an inorganic pigment having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 &mgr;m, or it comprises an inorganic fine particles having an average primary particle diameter of 3 to 50 nm and an average secondary particle diameter of less than 0.5 &mgr;m, a hydrophilic polymer and an inorganic pigment having an average particle diameter of 0.5 to 10 &mgr;m, and a Haze value of the ink receptive layer defined by JIS-K-7105 is 25% or less and an image clarity C value of a surface of the ink receptive layer defined by JIS-H-8686 is 85% or less, and relates to a use thereof, preferably, a contact angle of a surface of the ink-jet recording material for a back lit use with water is 13 to 35° while one with linseed oil is 8 to 20°.

Abstract: There are disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a water resistant support, an ink-receptive layer containing inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of a primary particle of 3 to 30 nm on one surface of the support, and a back coating layer mainly comprising an organic polymer provided on an opposite surface of the support to the surface on which the ink-receptive layer is provided, wherein when an arithmetical mean roughness Ra measured with a cut off value of 0.8 mm regulated by JIS-B-0601-1994 of the surface on which the back coating layer has been provided of the water resistant support is made A &mgr;m, a density of the organic polymer in the back coating layer is made B g/cm3, and an amount of a solid component of the organic polymer provided as the back coating layer is made C g/cm2, then A is 1 to 5 &mgr;m and A, B and C satisfy the following formula (I): 0.6×A<C/B<6  (I) a recording method and a recorded material using the same.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material including a water resistant support, and a porous ink-receptive layer containing inorganic fine particles having an average particle size of primary particles of 30 nm or less provided on the support, wherein the ink-jet recording material contains at least one hydrazine compound.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phthalamide derivative of the formula (I): wherein A1 is (substituted) C1-C8 alkylene, (substituted) C3-C8 alkenylene, (substituted) C3-C8 alkynylene, etc., R1 is H, (halo) C3-C6 cycloalkyl, (substituted) phenyl, (substituted) heterocycle, —A2—R4, etc., R2 and R3 are H, C3-C6 cycloalkyl, —A2—R4, etc., A2 is —C(═O)—, —C(═S)— or —C(═NR5)—, R4 is H, alkyl, (substituted) phenyl, (substituted) heterocycle, etc., X and Y are halogen, cyano, nitro, (halo) C1-C6 alkyl, (halo) C1-C6 alkoxy, etc., l is 0-4, m is 0-5, n is 0-2; and an agrohorticultural insecticide containing said compound as active ingredient and exhibiting an excellent insecticidal effect.

Abstract: The present invention provides an aniline derivative represented by the formula (I) wherein R1 and R2 are each H, (C1-12)alkyl, (C3-8)cycloalkyl, hydroxy(C1-12)alkyl, hydroxycarbonyl (C1-12)alkyl, (C1-6)-alkoxycarbonyl(C1-6)alkyl, —COR8, wherein R8 is H, halo-(C1-12)alkyl, (C3-8)cycloalkyl or (substituted) phenyl, COOR9, wherein R9 is a halo(C1-6)alkyl group, (substituted) phenyl or (substituted) benzyl; R3, R4, R5, R6and R7 are each H, halogen, OH, nitro, halo(C1-12)alkylthio, (substituted)amino-(C1-2)alkyl, (substituted) phenyl, (substituted) benzyl, amino, —N(R10)R11 wherein R10 and R11 are each H, alkyl, cycloalkyl, (substituted) phenyl, (substituted) benzyl, —COR8 or COOR9, or (C2-27)perfluoroalkyl, etc., and a process for producing the aniline derivative. According to the process of the present invention, perfluoroalkylaniline derivatives can be obtained by using various anilines as the substrate with a high position selectivity and high yield.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a reversible two-color heat-sensitive recording material which uses an electron-donative dye precursor which is usually colorless or a pale color and an electron-accepting compound, and a reversible heat-sensitive color-forming composition which is capable of forming a color-formation state and decolorization state relatively due to difference in heating temperature and/or cooling rate after heating is formed on a support, wherein the reversible heat-sensitive color-forming composition comprises at least two kinds of compositions having different color tones to be formed and the compositions are each present separately and in an independent state, and crystallization rates of the electron-donative compounds at the time of changing from the color-formation state to the decolorization state are different from each other.

Abstract: An ink-jet recording material comprising a support, and an ink-receptive layer provided on the support, wherein said ink-receptive layer contains at least one thioether compound having an alkyl group substituted by a hydrophilic group or a group containing a basic nitrogen atom, and an ink-jet recording method which comprises at least the step of shooting liquid drops of an ink composition comprising at least a water-soluble dye, an organic solvent and water to an ink-jet recording material having an ink-receptive layer containing at least one thioether compound having an alkyl group substituted by a hydrophilic, group or a group containing a basic nitrogen atom, provided on a support.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a support in which both surfaces of a base paper are covered by a polyolefin resin, and an ink-receptive layer containing inorganic fine particles and a hydrophilic binder provided on the support, wherein a surface of the support opposite to the surface at which the ink-receptive layer is provided has a ten-point mean roughness Rz measured according to JIS-B-0601 of boarding is 12 to 40 &mgr;m under the condition of a reference length of 8 mm, and preferably a ratio of a total length X of a mean line across the mountain part to a total length Y of a mean line across a valley part, X/Y is 1/10 to 3/1.

Abstract: The titanium dioxide pigment of the present invention comprises titanium dioxide particles, the coating layer containing the aluminum phosphate compound and the coating layer containing the hydrolyzate of the organosilane compound, on the surface of the particles, in which a difference in water content between 100° C. and 300° C., determined by the Karl Fischer method, is not greater than 1500 ppm, and is thus excellent in light fastness, hydrophobicity and dispersibility. In particular, the titanium dioxide pigment of the invention is extremely advantageous as a colorant for plastics, which requires light fastness (resistance to discoloration) lacing resistance and dispersibility, to a high degree.

Abstract: There are disclosed a light-sensitive composition which comprises (A) a polymer having a phenyl group substituted by a vinyl group at a side chain, (B) a photopolymerization initiator and (C) a sensitizer which sensitizes the photo-polymerization initiator, or a light-sensitive composition which comprises (A′) a polymer, the above-mentioned (B) and (C), and (D) a monomer having at least two phenyl groups each of which is substituted by a vinyl group in the molecule of the monomer; and a method of forming a relief image which comprises coating the light-sensitive composition as mentioned above on a support, exposing the composition by exposure or scanning exposure and developing the same to form a relief image on the support.

Abstract: The present invention provides a phthalic acid diamide derivative represented by the general formula (I) (wherein R1, R2 and R3 are each H, C3-C6 cycloalkyl group, group of the formula —A1—Ql or the like; X may be the same or different and are each halogen atom, nitro group, phenyl group, group of the formula —A2—R7 or the like; n is 1 to 4; Y may be same or different and are each halogen atom, cyano group, phenyl group, group of the formula —A2—R7 or the like; m is 1 to 5; Z1 and Z2 are each O or S), fluorine-containing aniline compound represented by the general formula (ST-I) as starting material for said phthalic acid diamide derivative (wherein Ra is halogen atom, C1-C6 alkyl group or the like and Rb, Rc and Rd is H or C2-C6 perfluoroalkyl group), and an agricultural and horticultural insecticide containing said phthaldiamide derivative, as well as to provide a method for use of said insecticide.

Abstract: There is disclosed a liquid developing method of a printed wiring board using a one-surface stepwise developing system which forms a resist pattern stepwisely according to an electrophotographic reverse developing method on each surface of a material to be developed obtained by forming photo-conductive layers on both surfaces of a both-surfaces copper-clad laminated board, wherein the method comprises the steps of subjecting to a static charging treatment on a surface to which no electrostatic latent image is formed which surface is positioned opposing to an electrostatic latent image-formed surface which is a surface to be exposed, or to a non-developing surface between completion of an exposure treatment and before a liquid toner developing treatment, and subjecting to the liquid toner developing treatment to form a toner image corresponding to the resist pattern on the electrostatically latent image-formed surface.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ink-jet recording material which comprises a support, and an ink-receptive layer containing fumed silica having an average primary particle size of 3 nm to 30 nm provided on the support, wherein said ink-receptive layer contains a cationic compound and at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a sulfur-containing compound having no mercapto group, an amine compound, an amino compound and a saccharide, and a pH of the surface of the ink-jet recording material is 3 to 6.

Abstract: There is disclosed a process for making a lithographic printing plate, which comprises subjecting a lithographic printing material having at least a silver halide emulsion layer and a physical development nuclei layer on a support and having a sensitivity at a wavelength of 400 nm to 440 nm of 20 &mgr;J/cm2 or less, and having substantially no sensitivity at a wavelength of 450 nm or longer to scanning exposure by a scanning type exposure device on which a violet laser diode is mounted, and then subjecting to developing treatment.

Abstract: A method for using a compound represented by the general formula: (wherein R1 and R2 are the substituents, respectively, defined in the specification) for agricultural and horticultural disease control, and a composition used in said method.

Abstract: This invention relates to substituted 1-benzazepines and derivatives thereof useful as antibacterial agents, to compositions, including pharmaceutical compositions, comprising such compounds, to processes for making these compounds and to methods of using these compounds for killing bacteria or inhibiting bacterial growth.

Abstract: The present invention provides a separator for non-aqueous electrolyte batteries which neither breaks nor slips off at the time of fabrication of battery, gives excellent battery fabricability, causes no internal short-circuit caused by contact between electrodes even if the electrodes are externally short-circuited, can inhibit ignition of battery and produces high energy density and excellent cycle life, and further provides a non-aqueous electrolyte battery using the separator and a method for manufacturing the separator.

Abstract: A photocatalyst composite is provided which comprise a substrate having particles of a photocatalyst such as titanium oxide, adhered thereon via a less degradative adhesive such as a fluorinated polymer comprising a copolymer of a vinyl ester and/or vinyl ether and a fluoroolefin, or a silicon based polymer or cement. Furthermore, a process for producing the photocatalyst composite and a coating composition containing the photocatalyst composite are provided.

Abstract: A photocatalytic filter having a coating layer formed in a thickness of 5 to 60 &mgr;m on a base material and including 5 to 60% by weight of ultraviolet ray-transmissible particles (such as glass particles or fibers) having a minor axis of 0.2 to 50 &mgr;m, 20 to 80% by weight of photocatalytical particles (TiO2) having an average particle size of 0.001 to 0.02 &mgr;m, 10 to 60% by weight of fine silica particles having an average particle size of 0.002 to 0.2 &mgr;m and optionally 0.2 to 20% by weight of a clay mineral material, preferably a portion of the ultraviolet ray-transmissible particles being exposed to the outside of the coating layer, exhibits a high air-cleaning activity, a high adhesion of the coating layer to the base material and a high durability in the air-cleaning activity.