Abstract: A medical braided tube assembly includes a braided tube including a hollow cylindrical inner resin layer, a braided wire including braided strands and being provided over a periphery of the inner resin layer, and an outer resin layer provided to cover peripheries of the inner resin layer and the braided wire, and a connector provided at an end portion of the braided tube. The connector includes a tube housing section for accommodating the end portion of the braided tube. The braided tube accommodated in the tube housing section are adhesively fixed by an adhesive. The adhesive is provided to seal an entire periphery of the braided wire at an end face of the braided tube.

Abstract: Provided is an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order, in which the outermost layer has a sea-island structure consisting of a discontinuous phase that contains a hydrophobic polymer and a continuous phase that contains a water-soluble polymer. Also provided are a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate and a lithographic printing method in which the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor is used.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order, in which a contact angle of a water droplet on a surface of the outermost layer that is measured 2 seconds after the water droplet is landed by an airborne water droplet method is greater than 36°. The present disclosure also provides applications of the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image-recording layer, and an outermost layer in this order, in which the outermost layer contains a hydrophobic polymer, and a contact angle of a water droplet on a surface of the outermost layer that is measured 2 seconds after the water droplet is landed by an airborne water droplet method is less than 36°. The present disclosure also provides applications of the on-press development type lithographic printing plate precursor.

Abstract: A lithographic printing plate precursor includes an image recording layer on a support, in which the lithographic printing plate precursor has projections which are discontinuously formed on a surface of an outermost layer on a side where the image recording layer is provided, and a melting point of each projection is in a range of 70° C. to 150° C. A method of producing a lithographic printing plate includes a step of image-wise exposing the lithographic printing plate precursor to form an exposed portion and an unexposed portion, and a step of supplying at least one of printing ink or dampening water to remove the unexposed portion.

Abstract: A planographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and an image recording layer which includes a radical initiator, a radical polymerizable component, and a radiation absorption compound, and in which the image recording layer shows two or more peaks of a radical generation amount in a radical generation amount-versus-time curve after exposure to image forming radiation, in which the radical initiator includes an electron-donating radical initiator and an electron-accepting radical initiator, and the radiation absorption compound comprises a compound represented by the following Formula 1.

Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor having a support, an image recording layer, and an overcoat layer in this order, in which the overcoat layer includes a water-soluble polymer and particles, a melting point of the particles is in a range of 70° C. to 150° C., and a volume average particle diameter of the particles is greater than 0.7 ?m and a method of producing a lithographic printing plate obtained by using the lithographic printing plate precursor.

Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor including an image recording layer on a support, in which the lithographic printing plate precursor has projections which are discontinuously formed on a surface of an outermost layer on a side where the image recording layer is provided, and a melting point of each projection is in a range of 70° C. to 150° C.; and a method of producing a lithographic printing plate obtained by using the lithographic printing plate precursor. It is preferable that the method of producing a lithographic printing plate includes a step of image-wise exposing the lithographic printing plate precursor to form an exposed portion and an unexposed portion, and a step of supplying at least one of printing ink or dampening water to remove the unexposed portion.

Abstract: A planographic printing plate precursor includes: a support; and an image recording layer which includes a radical initiator, a radical polymerizable component, and a radiation absorption compound, and in which the image recording layer shows two or more peaks of a radical generation amount in a radical generation amount-versus-time curve after exposure to image forming radiation, in which the radical initiator includes an electron-donating radical initiator and an electron-accepting radical initiator, and the radiation absorption compound comprises a compound represented by the following Formula 1.

Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor including an aluminum support, and an image recording layer on the aluminum support, in which the aluminum support includes an anodized film on a surface of the image recording layer side, the anodized film has micropores extending in a depth direction from the surface of the anodized film on the image recording layer side, an average pore diameter of the micropores in the surface of the anodized film is greater than 0 ?m and 0.03 ?m or less, an average maximum diameter of the micropores inside the anodized film is in a range of 0.04 ?m to 0.30 ?m, an average value A nm of thicknesses of surface opening portions and an average value B nm of thicknesses of internal maximum diameter portions satisfy a relationship of 2.5?B/A?28.0, and the image recording layer contains an acid color former; a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate using the lithographic printing plate precursor; and a lithographic printing method.

Abstract: Provided are a lithographic printing plate precursor including an aluminum support, and an image recording layer on the aluminum support, in which the aluminum support includes an anodized film on a surface of the image recording layer side, the anodized film has micropores extending in a depth direction from the surface of the anodized film on the image recording layer side, an average pore diameter of the micropores in the surface of the anodized film is greater than 0 ?m and 0.03 ?m or less, an average maximum diameter of the micropores inside the anodized film is in a range of 0.04 ?m to 0.30 ?m, an average value A nm of thicknesses of surface opening portions and an average value B nm of thicknesses of internal maximum diameter portions satisfy a relationship of 2.5?B/A?28.0, and the image recording layer contains an acid color former; a method of preparing a lithographic printing plate using the lithographic printing plate precursor; and a lithographic printing method.

Abstract: There is provided a highly branched hydrocarbon based surfactant for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion. A surfactant comprising: a sulfate compound of Formula (1): R1—OSO3M??(1) (where R1 is a C6-30 hydrocarbon group having a branched chain; and M is a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, ammonium, a basic amino acid residue, an alkanolamine residue having a C2-3 hydroxyalkyl group, or an aliphatic alkanolammonium) for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion.

Abstract: There is provided a highly branched hydrocarbon based surfactant for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion. A surfactant comprising: a sulfate compound of Formula (1): R1—OSO3M??(1) (where R1 is a C6-30 hydrocarbon group having a branched chain; and M is a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, ammonium, a basic amino acid residue, an alkanolamine residue having a C2-3 hydroxyalkyl group, or an aliphatic alkanolammonium) for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion.

Abstract: There is provided a highly branched hydrocarbon based surfactant for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion. A surfactant comprising: a sulfate compound of Formula (1): R1—OSO3M ??(1) (where R1 is a C6-30 hydrocarbon group having a branched chain; and M is a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, ammonium, a basic amino acid residue, an alkanolamine residue having a C2-3 hydroxyalkyl group, or an aliphatic alkanolammonium) for stabilizing a water/supercritical carbon dioxide microemulsion.