Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member and a method for use therewith comprising an imaging layer and a base wherein said base comprises a closed cell foam core sheet and adhered thereto an upper and lower flange sheet, and wherein said imaging member has a stiffness of between 50 and 250 millinewtons and is conductive.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of forming a polymer composite comprising mixing smectite clay and polyvinyl pyrrolidone to form a first dispersion of intercalated clay, mixing said dispersion with polyethylene oxide to form a second dispersion, flowing said second dispersion into ketone so as to flocculate a polymer composite of polyethylene oxide and intercalated clay and recovering said flocculate, wherein the polyethylene oxide is rendered to reduced crystallinity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material comprising a sheet wherein said sheet comprises at least one layer comprising polyether polymeric antistat and thermally processable onium salt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material comprising a web wherein said web comprises at least one surface layer comprising polyether polymeric antistat, extrudable polymer, and compatibilizer wherein said surface layer has a roughness of greater than 0.3 Ra.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material comprising a sheet wherein said sheet comprises at least one layer comprising polyether polymeric antistat and thermally processable onium salt.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a solution of a substituted or unsubstituted thiophene-containing electrically-conductive polymer and an organic solvent media; the media having a water content of less than 12 weight percent. An imaging element with the coating composition is also described, wherein the coating composition provides improved manufacturability and physical performance.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member comprising a polymer sheet, a primer layer comprising polyethyleneimine and gelatin contacting said polymer sheet, and an image receiving layer contacting said primer layer.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a solution of a substituted or unsubstituted thiophene-containing electrically-conductive polymer, a film-forming binder, and an organic solvent media; the media having a water content of less than 37 weight percent. Such a coating composition provides a means to protect an imaging element against the accumulation of static electrical charges before and after image processing while also providing the element with improved manufacturability and physical properties.

Abstract: The present invention is a process for the preparation of a solid particles of a compound. The process includes milling the compound in the presence of milling media composed of ceramic particles having an average size of 0.1 to 20 mm. The ceramic particles are composed of a tetragonal zirconia core and a continuous hard case shell comprising cubic zirconia, monoclinic zirconia, spinel or zircon.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member comprising an image layer and a support comprising at least one layer comprising an inorganic particle having an aspect ratio of at least 10 to 1, a lateral dimension of between 0.01 &mgr;m and 5 &mgr;m, and a vertical dimension between 0. 5 nm and 10 nm, and polymeric resin.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of conductivity control comprising providing a photographic element having a lower surface antistatic layer comprising polyether polymeric antistat, imaging said photographic element, processing said photographic element in aqueous development solutions, and recovering said developed photographic element, wherein the lower surface resistivity of said photographic element attains a value ≧10 log ohm/sq. but <13 log ohms/sq. after processing.

Abstract: The invention relates to an imaging member comprising an image layer and a support comprising at least one layer comprising an inorganic particle having an aspect ratio of at least 10 to 1, a lateral dimension of between 0.01 &mgr;m and 5 &mgr;m, and a vertical dimension between 0.5 nm and 10 nm, and polymeric resin.

Abstract: A photographic imaging element is disclosed which comprises a support having on one side thereof at least one silver halide emulsion layer and having, in order, on the opposite side thereof an electrically-conductive layer coated from a coating composition comprising a polythiophene/polyanion composition containing a polythiophene with conjugated polymer backbone component and a polymeric polyanion component, and a protective topcoat comprised of a polyurethane binder which has a tensile elongation to break of at least 50% and a Young's modulus measured at 2% elongation of at least 50000 lb/in2; wherein the electrical resistivity of the electrically-conductive layer before photographic processing is less than 2×109 &OHgr;/□, after photographic processing is between 1×109 &OHgr;/□ and 1×1011 &OHgr;/□, and increases by at least one order of magnitude as a result of photographic processing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a material comprising a web wherein said web comprises at least one surface layer comprising polyether polymeric antistat, extrudable polymer, and compatibilizer wherein said surface layer has a roughness of greater than 0.3 Ra.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a solution of an electrically-conductive polymer and an organic solvent media wherein the solvents are selected from the group consisting of alcohols, ketones, cycloalkanes, arenes, esters, glycol ethers and their mixtures; the media having a water content of less than 12 weight percent. Such a coating composition provides a means to protect an imaging element against the accumulation of static electrical charges before and after image processing while also providing the element with improved manufacturability and physical properties.

Abstract: A process for forming an abrasion-resistant antistatic layer for an imaging element comprises: adjusting the pH of an aqueous composition of an electronically-conductive polymer to a pH of about 3 to about 10, and combining the pH-adjusted aqueous composition of the electronically-conductive polymer with an aqueous composition at a pH greater than 7 of a polyurethane film-forming binder having a tensile elongation to break of at least 50% and a Young's modulus measured at 2% elongation of at least 50000 psi. The process further comprises applying the resulting coating composition to the imaging element, thereby forming an abrasion-resistant antistatic layer on the element. The antistatic layer coating composition of the present invention can be applied to a wide variety of imaging elements, including, for example, photographic, electrostatographic, photothermographic, migration, electrothermographic, dielectric recording and thermal-dye-transfer imaging elements.

Abstract: A photographic element having an antistatic layer comprising: a conductive agent, a colloidal sol, and a polymeric film-forming binder having a peel strength of 400 g or greater on a polypropylene surface.

Abstract: A coating composition comprising a solution of an electrically-conductive polymer and an organic solvent media wherein the solvents are selected from the group consisting of alcohols, ketones, cycloalkanes, arenes, esters, glycol ethers and their mixtures; the media having a water content of less than 12 weight percent. Such a coating composition provides a means to protect an imaging element against the accumulation of static electrical charges before and after image processing while also providing the element with improved manufacturability and physical properties.

Abstract: The present invention is a process for the preparation of a solid particles of a compound. The process includes milling the compound in the presence of milling media composed of ceramic particles having an average size of 0.1 to 20 mm. The ceramic particles are composed of a tetragonal zirconia core and a continuous hard case shell comprising cubic zirconia, monoclinic zirconia, spinel or zircon.

Abstract: The present invention is milling media composed of ceramic particles having an average size of 0.1 to 20 mm. The ceramic particles contain a tetragonal zirconia core and a continuous shell on the core comprising cubic zirconia, monoclinic zirconia, spinel or zircon. The present invention is also a method of manufacturing the milling media which includes providing ceramic particles having an average size of 0.1 to 20 mm. The ceramic particles are tetragonal zirconia. The ceramic particles are coated with a clay material and sintered to form a shell of cubic zirconia, monoclinic zirconia, spinel or zircon over the tetragonal zirconia core.