Abstract: Disclosed are an organic dye having a specific structure, a photoelectric conversion material containing the dye, a semiconductor electrode formed of a substrate having an electrically conductive surface, a semiconductor layer coated on the electrically conductive surface and the above dye adsorbed on the surface, and a photoelectric conversion device to which the above dye is applied. The present invention uses the above dye and can therefore provide a photoelectric conversion device excellent in photoelectric conversion efficiency, and the photoelectric conversion device is suitable for use in a solar cell or the like.

Abstract: Provided is a thermal recording material that is excellent in thermal response and retainability of an image portion and which generates fewer residues adhering to the thermal head of a thermal printer. The thermal recording material having a thermal recording layer comprising a generally colorless or light-colored electron-donating dye precursor and an electron-accepting developer that reacts under heat to cause said dye precursor to form a color, said thermal recording layer containing a specific diphenylsulfone derivative, a specific amide derivative and a specific fluorane derivative, wherein the weight ratio of the specific diphenylsulfone derivative above and the specific amide derivative above is 2/1 to 1/2.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material having excellent properties such as high color-forming sensitivity (excellent thermal response), a high formed color density, freedom from ground fogging and excellent retainability of recorded image. The heat-sensitive recording material has a heat-sensitive recording layer containing (1) at least two diphenylsulfone derivatives, (2) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with a hydroxybenzoic acid derivative, (3) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with a diphenyl ether derivative, (4) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with salicylamide or a derivative thereof, or (5) a combination of 4,4?-dihydroxydiphenylsulfone, salicylanilide and dibenzyloxalate.

Abstract: Disclosed are a thermal recording material having a thermal recording layer containing an electron-donating dye precursor and an electron-accepting compound, wherein the thermal recording layer comprises an electron-accepting compound of the general formula (I), (each of R1 and R2 is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group), and a specific aromatic phosphorus compound, and a thermal recording material wherein said thermal recording layer comprises the electron-accepting compound of the above general formula (I) and an undercoat layer formed on a substrate comprises an organic pigment having a specific morphological structure. The former thermal recording material is excellent particularly in thermal response as well as heat resistance and light resistance of a ground and images in storage, and the latter thermal recording material is excellent particularly in whiteness.

Abstract: A support for an imaging material, which not only can give an imaging material and a print thereon having a high gloss appearance and being free of non-uniformity in gloss but also is improved in the property of peeling from a cooling roll and which has high stiffness and can be stably produced at a high speed, the support being a resin-coated-paper-based support for an imaging material, in which (1) each of a resin sheet on a side (front side) where an image is to be formed and a base paper has a multi-layered structure, (2) the base paper has a multi-layered structure, the resin sheet on the front surface is a polyolefin resin sheet and the paper layer constitution of the base paper is specified, or (3) the front resin sheet has a multi-layered structure constituted of an upper layer containing at least 50% by weight of a polyethylene resin having a density of at least 0.940 g/cm3 and a lower layer containing a largest amount of a polyethylene resin (b) having a density of less than 0.

Abstract: An information recording material having an information recording layer formed on a substrate formed by applying by curtain-coating a coating film comprising two coating solution films of which the viscosity increases when the two coating solution films are brought into contact, or mixed, with each other. An intermediate coating solution film for isolating the two coating solution films one from the other and is provided between the two coating solution films. Alternatively, a curtain-coating composition film having at least one set of adjacent two layers of which the viscosity increases with the passage of time when the two layers are brought into contact, or mixed, with each other. Information recording materials having particularly excellent quality of applied layers and excellent in various properties with good productivity.

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material having excellent properties such as high color-forming sensitivity (excellent thermal response), a high formed color density, freedom from ground fogging and excellent retainability of recorded image. The heat-sensitive recording material has a heat-sensitive recording layer containing (1) at least two diphenylsulfone derivatives, (2) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with a hydroxybenzoic acid derivative, (3) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with a diphenyl ether derivative, (4) a combination of a diphenylsulfone derivative with salicylamide or a derivative thereof, or (5) a combination of 4,4′-dihydroxydiphenylsulfone, salicylanilide and dibenzyloxalate.

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: Disclosed is a method of producing, with good productivity, information recording materials such as a thermal recording material and an inkjet recording material excellent in coating properties and excellent in various properties. The method comprises forming a coating composition film made of a plurality of coating color layers on a substrate by curtain coating and drying the coating composition film to form part or all of layers for forming an information recording material, and either (1) adjusting the viscosity of each of the coating colors for a plurality of the coating color layers to at least 100 mPa·s and controlling the surface tension of the coating color for a lowermost layer to 18 to 45 mN/m, or (2) controlling the density of the coating color for a layer to be positioned above not to exceed 140% of the density of the coating color for an adjacent layer to be positioned below. The present invention has been completed on the basis of the above findings.

Abstract: A support for an imaging material, which not only can give an imaging material and a print thereon having a high gloss appearance and being free of non-uniformity in gloss but also is improved in the property of peeling from a cooling roll and which has high stiffness and can be stably produced at a high speed, the support being a resin-coated-paper-based support for an imaging material, in which (1) each of a resin sheet on a side (front side) where an image is to be formed and a base paper has a multi-layered structure, (2) the base paper has a multi-layered structure, the resin sheet on the front surface is a polyolefin resin sheet and the paper layer constitution of the base paper is specified, or (3) the front resin sheet has a multi-layered structure constituted of an upper layer containing at least 50% by weight of a polyethylene resin having a density of at least 0.940 g/cm3 and a lower layer containing a largest amount of a polyethylene resin (b) having a density of less than 0.

Abstract: A resin coated paper-based support for an imaging material comprises a multilayered base paper and a polyolefin resin sheet on at least the image forming side of the paper base. The thickness, fiber length, pulp composition, and freeness of the paper layers comprising the multilayered base paper base are controlled in order to obtain an imaging material with high gloss, stiffness, and curl resistance. The polyolefin resin sheet may comprise one or more layers.

Abstract: A photomask material which has high-definition image reproducibility and gives a photomask having good image strength, heat resistance and durability against light (ultraviolet light) and which is for use to form a circuit pattern etc., and a method of effectively processing the above photomask material. The photomask material comprises has at least a silver halide emulsion layer and a physical development center layer on a glass substrate, the physical development center layer being formed between the glass substrate and the silver halide emulsion layer, and gives a photomask having a metal silver image having a thickness of 1 &mgr;m or less formed on the glass substrate and having a maximum optical density of at least 1.

Abstract: Disclosed are a photomask material for preparing a photomask having excellent heat resistance, ultraviolet resistance and image strength, a photomask having the above properties and methods for the production thereof, and the present invention provides a photomask material, which comprises a glass substrate, a physical development nucleus layer and a photosensitive layer containing silver halide, the layers being consecutively formed on the transparent substrate, and a method for the production thereof, and a photomask, which comprises a transparent substrate, a physical development nucleus layer and a light shielding film formed of a predetermined pattern of a silver film derived from silver halide, the silver film being formed by the action of the physical development nucleus in said layer during development treatment, the physical development nucleus layer and the light shielding film being consecutively formed on the transparent substrate, and a method for the production thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a reversible heat-sensitive recording material which is excellent in light resistance and is remarkably free from discoloration caused by exposure to light and erasing failure and which shows a high layer strength and has durability against repeated printing and erasing, the reversible heat-sensitive recording material having a support, a reversible heat-sensitive recording layer formed on the support and at least one protective layer formed thereon, the reversible heat-sensitive recording layer containing a normally colorless or slightly colored dye precursor and a reversible color developer capable of causing a reversible change in color density of the dye precursor on the basis of a difference in cooling rate after heating, wherein at least one of the said layers contains an isocyanate compound and an ultraviolet absorbent capable of reacting with the isocyanate compound to undergo crosslinking.

Abstract: Oxytitanium phthalocyanine having a novel crystal form having excellent electrophotographic properties, such as a high charge potential, a high sensitivity and stable performances free from causing changes in various properties in repeated use, can be produced in the absence of a halogen substance, by carrying out the crystal transformation of amorphous oxytitanium phthalocyanine in a solvent comprising water and naphthalene.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with an indicator material which is obtained by impregnating a non-woven fabric, of which one surface is provided with a resin layer having a partly or wholly colored surface, with a volatile oily substance used as an active ingredient in a deodorant, an aromatic agent, an anti-fungal agent or a mothproofing agent, and which is used for showing the degree of dissipation of the oily substance which occurs with the passage of time, based on the shifting of the resin layer observable from the non-woven fabric side from a visible state to a state masked by the non-woven fabric, the indicator material overcoming a failure of conventional indicator materials containing non-woven fabrics in relatively clearly showing the degree of the oily substance with the passage of time, by using a non-woven fabric containing a fine-denier fiber having a size of 2 denier or less or by using a non-woven fabric having a partly altered density.

Abstract: A carbonless pressure-sensitive copying paper which uses a solvent free of an unpleasant odor and friendly to environments and is excellent in color formability and image keeping properties, the copying paper having a layer containing microcapsules enclosing a color former dissolved in a solvent, the solvent being a middle-length-chain triglyceride (MCT), the color former being an indolylazaphthalide compound or a fluoran compound having a trifluoromethylanilino group, the color former further containing a color former different in kind, the solvent further containing a specific fatty acid ester solvent in combination with the MCT, and the color developer being an inorganic color developer, preferably a simi-synthetic solid acid.

Abstract: The apparatus for coating a lithographic printing plate or a photosensitive material (M) with a processing liquid comprises first and second pairs of feed rollers (41,42: 44,45) for feeding the photosensitive arterial along a predetermined path. A coating roller (125) is provided therebetween. Guide members (48, 49) contact the bottom surface of the photosensitive material and to guide the photosensitive material. The contacts of the guide members and the photosensitive material are at the levels higher than the coating level at which the processing liquid is applied to the photosensitive material to prevent uneven coating of the photosensitive material with the processing liquid after the trailing edge of the photosensitive material has passed the first pairs of the feed rollers (41,42).

Abstract: Disclosed is a heat-sensitive recording material in which a heat-sensitive recording layer which thermally forms a color is directly or indirectly formed on a substrate, the heat-sensitive recording layer being present between two oxygen-barrier layers each of which has a basis weight of 2 to 20 g/m.sup.2, the oxygen-barrier layers being formed of a polymer substance having an oxygen permeability constant of 0.5.times.10.sup.-10 cm.sup.3 .multidot.cm/cm.sup.2 .multidot.sec.multidot.cmHg or less. The heat-sensitive recording has excellent light resistance in non-printed portion thereof.

Abstract: Negative images of super-high contrast can be formed by developing an exposed silver halide photographic photosensitive material in the presence of at least one compound selected from the compound of formula (1): ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2, R.sup.3 and R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6, or R.sup.1 and R.sup.3, together with nitrogen atom to which they are attached, may form a ring; L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 independently represent an alkylene group, an arylene group or a repeated alkyleneoxy group having at least two repeated alkyleneoxy units, which groups may be optionally substituted; A represents an atom selected from hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and sulfur or a divalent linkage group constituted from these atoms; and m and n represent 0 or 1, and the compound of formula (2) ##STR2## wherein R.sup.7, R.sup.8 and R.sup.