Abstract: This invention provides an embossed release paper that has high heat resistance and embossing properties. The embossed release paper comprises a paper base material, an ionizing radiation-cured resin layer, and a heat-cured silicone layer stacked in that order, the embossed release paper having embosses. The embossed release paper has high heat resistance and thus is suitable for use in synthetic leather production and melamine decorative sheet production that involve surface emboss pattern formation.

Abstract: This invention provides an embossed release paper that has high heat resistance and embossing properties. The embossed release paper comprises a paper base material, an ionizing radiation-cured resin layer, and a heat-cured silicone layer stacked in that order, the embossed release paper having embosses. The embossed release paper has high heat resistance and thus is suitable for use in synthetic leather production and melamine decorative sheet production that involve surface emboss pattern formation.

Abstract: A novel information recording medium is provided which records information upon the application of thermal energy, reads the recorded information by detecting the value of photoelectric current generated by light applied to the information recorded portion, and can realize multi-valued information recording or analog information recording. The information recording medium comprises: a pair of electrodes; and a liquid crystal material filled into a gap between the electrodes, the liquid crystal material having a property such that the charge-transport properties are varied according to the phase transfer between a plurality of stable liquid crystal phases of the liquid crystal and/or the history of the phase transfer.

Abstract: An embossed release sheet includes a support sheet, an embossed layer which is arranged on the support sheet and contains a resin that is embossed and cured by ionizing radiation or ultraviolet radiation, and a release layer which is arranged on the surface of the embossed layer and contains addition-polymerized silicone.

Abstract: Disclosed is a binder-loaded type charge-transport liquid crystal material which comprises a liquid crystal compound and a binder and, in spite of the presence of the binder, can substantially retain the properties inherent in the liquid crystal compound.

Abstract: A novel information recording medium is provided which records information upon the application of thermal energy, reads the recorded information by detecting the value of photoelectric current generated by light applied to the information recorded portion, and can realize multi-valued information recording or analog information recording.

Abstract: A liquid crystalline compound having a novel structure and a process for producing the same are provided. The liquid crystalline compound is represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a straight-chain, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and may be attached directly to the aromatic ring without through X1 or X2; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a fluorine atom, or a methyl group; and X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a —CO—, —OCO—, —COO—, —N═CH—, —CONH—, —NH—, —NHCO—, or —CH2— group.

Abstract: Disclosed is a binder-loaded type charge-transport liquid crystal material which comprises a liquid crystal compound and a binder and, in spite of the presence of the binder, can substantially retain the properties inherent in the liquid crystal compound.

Abstract: A novel information recording medium is provided which records information upon the application of thermal energy, reads the recorded information by detecting the value of photoelectric current generated by light applied to the information recorded portion, and can realize multi-valued information recording or analog information recording.

Abstract: Disclosed is a binder-loaded type charge-transport liquid crystal material which comprises a liquid crystal compound and a binder and, in spite of the presence of the binder, can substantially retain the properties inherent in the liquid crystal compound.

Abstract: A composition for forming a non-conductive light-shielding layer, comprising an alkali-soluble binder, a pigment, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photopolymerization initiator and a solvent, wherein the pigment comprises fine particles of a double oxide selected from CuMn2O4, and CuMn2O4 in which a part of Mn is substituted with Fe, Co and/or Ni.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel charge transfer materials which have both the advantageous properties of amorphous materials such as structural flexibility and uniformity over large areas, and those of crystalline materials such as molecular orientation and which are excellent in charge transferability, thin-film formability, and durability of various types.

Abstract: A novel liquid crystalline charge transport material is provided which simultaneously has advantages of an amorphous material, that is, evenness in a large area, and advantages of a crystalline material having molecular alignment, is excellent in high-quality charge transport capability, film forming properties, various types of durability and the like, and permits the alignment to be regulated by external stimulation. The liquid crystalline charge transport material has smectic liquid crystallinity and an electron mobility of not less than 1×10−5 cm2/v.s.

Abstract: There is provided a ferroelectric charge-transport liquid crystal material comprising a liquid crystal compound, the liquid crystal material having a carrier mobility of not less than 10−5 cm2/Vs. There are further provided an image display device, an electroluminescence device, a photoconductor, a space light modulating device, a thin-film transistor, a photosensor, and a photorefractive device each comprising the ferroelectric charge-transport liquid crystal material.

Abstract: A liquid crystalline compound having a novel structure and a process for producing the same are provided. The liquid crystalline compound is represented by the following general formula (I): wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a straight-chain, branched or cyclic, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group having 1 to 22 carbon atoms and may be attached directly to the aromatic ring without through X1 or X2; R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a cyano group, a nitro group, a fluorine atom, or a methyl group; and X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, or a —CO—, —OCO—, —COO—, —N═CH—, —CONH—, —NH—, —NHCO—, or —CH2— group.

Abstract: A composition for forming a non-conductive light-shielding layer, comprising an alkali-soluble binder, a pigment, a photopolymerizable monomer, a photo-polymerization initiator and a solvent, wherein the pigment comprises fine particles of a double oxide selected from CuMn.sub.2 O.sub.4, and CuMn.sub.2 O.sub.4 in which a part of Mn is substituted with Fe, Co and/or Ni.