Abstract: A method of forming a polarizing material is provided including exposing a layer of dichroic material to activating light illumination to provide an ordered structure with a distinguished absorption axis and thus photo-induce polarization, and fixing the induced polarization by polymerization of the dichroic layer. Novel polarizing materials formed thereby are also provided. By selectively exposing regions of the dichroic material to differing activating radiation, different regions with different polarization axes can be created. The polarizing material can also be provided with a coating or coatings to alter the spectral responses, and a stack formed of a plurality if dichroic layers can be provided.

Abstract: A method of forming a polarizing material is provided including exposing a layer of dichroic material to activating light illumination to provide an ordered structure with a distinguished absorption axis and thus photo-induce polarization, and fixing the induced polarization by polymerization of the dichroic layer. Novel polarizing materials formed thereby are also provided. By selectively exposing regions of the dichroic material to differing activating radiation, different regions with different polarization axes can be created. The polarizing material can also be provided with a coating or coatings to alter the spectral responses, and a stack formed of a plurality if dichroic layers can be provided.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel heterylaniline azo dye as well as an ink-jet recording ink and an ink-jet recording method enabling the formation of an image having a good hue and high durability to light and ozone gas. The ink-jet recording ink contains a heterylaniline azo dye derivative having a novel structure. The ink-jet recording method is characterized in that an image is formed by using the ink described above on an image-receiving material comprising a support having thereon an ink-receiving layer containing white inorganic pigment particles.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel aromatic acids, especially to compounds of formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is lower alkyl, R.sub.2 is lower alkyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen, carboxy or sulfo, R.sub.4 is carboxy or sulfo, G is an unsubstituted or substituted 1,4-phenylene group or an unsubstituted or substituted 1,4-naphthylene group, and wherein either R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 together are an additional bond and L is an oxygen or sulfur atom or wherein R.sub.5 is hydrogen, R.sub.6 is halomethyl and L is an oxygen atom, and salts thereof, to the use of compounds I and their salts, to a process for the preparation of compounds I and their salts, to starting materials used in that preparation process, and salts thereof, to a process for the preparation of those starting materials and their salts, to a device in which the compounds I and their salts are used, and to a process in which that device is used.

Abstract: The present invention relates to azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## wherein X is an aryloxy radical or an unsubstituted or substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 alkyl radical, a cycloalkyl radical or an aryl radical or a group of the formula ##STR2## wherein R.sub.1 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl, and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or unsubstituted or substituted lower alkyl, or wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic ring which may contain a further hetero-atom, Y is halogen, low molecular alkyl or low molecular alkoxy, and K is the radical of a coupling component of the benzene or naphthalene series or of the heterocyclic series.These dyes yield dyeings of good light- and wetfastness on polyamide material.

Abstract: An azo pigment composition which forms a dispersion having high tinting strength and excellent clearness, transparency, fluidity and storage stability, and which is formed from a coupling reaction between a diazo component and a coupler component, and contains a compound represented by formula (I) ##STR1## wherein Q represents a diazo or coupler component moiety, A represents a divalent bonding group selected from a class consisting of --CONR'--, SO.sub.2 NR'--, --CH.sub.2 NH-- and --CH.sub.2 NHCOCH.sub.2 NH-- in which R' represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or aryl group,each of R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represents a hydrogen atom, alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms or alkenyl group having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R.sub.3 and R.sub.

Abstract: Provided are novel dichroic azo dyestuffs, which contain skeletons represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## at one terminals of the long axes of the molecules of the azo dyestuffs, and liquid crystal compositions containing the dichroic azo dyestuffs in forms dissolved in liquid crystals. These dichroic azo dyestuffs have large dichroic ratios and high durability, and their compositions are employed as useful display devices.

Abstract: Monoazo compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which one of the two substituents R.sub.1 or R.sub.2 or both substituents are C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -alkyl or a group of the formula ##STR2## in which R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently of each other hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl and R.sub.5 is hydrogen, halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl and the other of the two substitutents R.sub.1 or R.sub.2, when the two are not C.sub.3 -C.sub.8 -alkyl or a group of the formula (1a), is hydrogen, halogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, and KK is the radical of a coupling component which is free of water-solubilizing groups the two described. These compounds can be used as dyes for dyeing or printing for example polyester fibre materials.

Abstract: A compound, or a salt thereof, represented by the following formula, ##STR1## wherein A is a substituted or unsubstituted phenylene or naphthylene group, B is ##STR2## in which R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, acylamino or ureido group, and R.sub.4 is a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl or lower alkoxy group, R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 are independently a hydrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl group, X is a substituted or unsubstituted amino, lower alkoxy, substituted phenoxy or sulfo group, Y is --SO.sub.2 CH.dbd.CH.sub.2 or --SO.sub.2 CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 Z, in which Z is a group capable of being split by the action of an alkali, and m is 2 or 3, which is useful for dyeing hydroxyl group- or amide group-containing fiber materials to give dyed products of a brown color having excellent fastness properties with good build-up property.

Abstract: Reactive azo dyes represented by the general formula (I) or (II): ##STR1## wherein M is a hydrogen atom or an alkali metal, R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, a nitro group or a carboxyl group, R.sup.2 and R.sup.8 are a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group or a sulfonic acid group, R.sup.3, R.sup.7 and R.sup.9 are a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group, an acetylamino group or a sulfonic acid group, R.sup.4 and R.sup.5 are a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a methoxy group or a sulfonic acid group, R.sup.6 is a hydrogen atom, a lower alkyl group, a lower alkoxy group or a sulfonic acid group, Z.sup.1 is a chlorine atom, a fluorine atom, an aliphatic or an aromatic amino residual group, a methoxy group or a phenoxy group, Z.sup.2 is the same one as Z.sup.1 when Z.sup.3 is ##STR2## Z.sup.2 is a chlorine atom or a fluorine atom when Z.sup.

Abstract: The invention relates to fibre-reactive monoazo dyestuffs of the general formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 and n have the meaning given in the text of the application, and also relates to a process for the preparation of these dyestuffs and their use for dyeing and printing materials containing hydroxyl groups or amide groups, such as wool and cotton.