Abstract: A process is disclosed for the production of connected microgel particles. According to the process, starting microgel particles having particle sizes of 100-0.01 .mu.m and a particle size distribution whose standard deviation is not greater than 100% of a mean particle size of the starting microgel particles are dispersed in a matrix component. The starting microgel particles are soaked with a monomer. The monomer is then polymerized, whereby the starting microgels are connected together. Also disclosed is an article comprising a base material and a layer of such connected microgel particles formed on a surface of the base material.

Abstract: Described is a method for producing a colored silk filament by having a colorant solution absorbed through the spiracles of each silkworm larva and then allowing the larva to secrete the colored silk filament through the spinneret thereof. In this method, a solution of a polymer-linked dyestuff is employed as the colorant solution.

Abstract: A water swellable resin composition comprises a water swellable resin and a medium such as a plasticizer, solvent, resin or resin solution. The resin is an alkali metal salt and/or hydrophilic amine salt of a copolymer of hydrophobic polymer chains having an .alpha.,.beta.-ethylenically-unsaturated group at end thereof and a monomer composed principally of (meth)acrylic acid.

Abstract: An electrophotographic photoreceptor is provided with a photosensitive layer, which contains an azo compound having in the molecule thereof at least one azo group coupled with a couple residuum represented by the following general formula (I): ##STR1## wherein X means an atomic group necessary for condensing with a benzene ring to form a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring, or substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring, Y denotes a radical selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, halogen atoms, cyano radicals, and substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, or alkoxy group, and n stands for an integer of 0.about.4, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 designate, respectively, hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted alalkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring or substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocyclic ring, and said R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be mutually same or different, or may form a ring together with nitrogen atom.

Abstract: A seed colorant useful especially in coloring seeds to distinguish same from those to be used for foods is formed of an aqueous medium such as water, a dye and/or pigment of a desired hue, and a binder resin composed of the salt of chitosan and an organic acid. The seed colorant may additionally contain spherical resin particles.

Abstract: A print is produced by printing or coating an infrared reflective coloring agent and another printing ink containing an infrared absorptive coloring agent in combination on a base material. The print therefore contains visually-recognizable information along with other information which is recognizable by infrared rays.

Abstract: A seed colorant useful especially in coloring seeds to distinguish same from those to be used for foods is formed of an aqueous medium such as water, a dye and/or pigment of a desired hue, and a binder resin composed of the salt of chitosan and an organic acid. The seed colorant may additionally contain spherical resin particles.

Abstract: A pigment composition contains a pigment and a dispersant. The dispersant is a polyester compound which contains, per molecule, a residuum of at least two benzene rings coupled together, an aromatic ring having at least 8 carbon atoms or a heterocyclic ring having at least 8 carbon atoms, and at least one ester bond as a principal bond.

Abstract: A pigment composition contains a pigment and a dispersant. The dispersant is a phosphoric ester compound represented by the following general formula: ##STR1## wherein at least one of the three Rs is a residuum of a polyester chain containing as principal bonds thereof ester bonds of a polycarboxylic acid and a polyalcohol.

Abstract: There is provided a new phosphoric ester compound represented by the formula below. ##STR1## (where one or more than one of the three R's are hydroxyl-terminated polyester residues obtained by self-polycondensation of a hydroxy-carboxylic acid; and one or two of the three R's, in case of being remained, are hydrogen atoms, cations, or residues of an alcohol excluding the above-mentioned polyesters.

Abstract: There is provided a new pigment composition composed of a pigment and a dispersant wherein the dispersant is a phosphoric ester compound represented by the formula below. ##STR1## (where one or more than one of the three R's are residues of a hydroxy-carboxylic acid and/or hydroxy ester thereof; and one or two of the three R's, in case of being remained, are hydrogen atoms, cations, or residues of an alcohol excluding the above-mentioned residues.

Abstract: There is provided a new pigment composition composed of a pigment and a dispersant wherein the dispersant is a phosphoric ester compound represented by the formula below. ##STR1## (where one or more than one of the three R's are hydroxyl-terminated polyester residues obtained by self-polycondensation of a hydroxy-carboxylic acid; and one or two of the three R's, in case of being remained, are hydrogen atoms, cations, or residues of an alcohol excluding the above-mentioned polyesters.

Abstract: An azo-pigment represented by the general formula: ##STR1## where R.sub.1 is a hydrogen atom, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl group, an unsubstituted phenyl group or a substituted phenyl group, R.sub.2 is a residue of a phenylenediamine, and R.sub.3 is a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a methoxy group or a halogen atom. The azo-pigment of the present invention is useful in applications where azo-pigments are used.

Abstract: A saccharide derivative having ureido group having 100 to 1% of N-carbamoyl-D-glucosamine unit, 0 to 90% of D-glucosamine unit and 0 to 70% of N-acetyl-D-glucosamine unit. The saccharide derivatives having ureido group can be used as fabricated products, an adhesive agent, a bonding agent, a processing agent, a coating agent, a soil improver, a fertilizer coating material, a water swellable material and a water absorbent.

Abstract: A hydrophilic polymer comprises a main component of a block copolymer and/or a graft copolymer which has at least one hydrophobic hard segment-hydrophilic segment-hydrophobic hard segment unit wherein said hydrophobic hard segment is a binding phase segment having an average molecular weight of more than 1,000 and said hydrophilic segment is a segment having a hydrophilic group connected to thioether bond on a side chain and having an average molecular weight of more than 1,000.

Abstract: Azo pigments having the formula ##STR1## wherein X represents hydrogen or halogen atom; n represents an integer of 1 to 4; R.sub.1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group; R.sub.2 represents a moiety of a coupling component which has one coupling site and R.sub.3 represents a moiety of a coupling component which has two coupling sites.The azo pigments can be produced by coupling a coupling component with a diazonium compound of an aromatic amine having the formula ##STR2## wherein X, n and R.sub.1 are defined above.

Abstract: An anti-corrosive organic pigment is prepared by mixing a lignin type compound with urea, a urea derivative, melamine, a melamine derivative, ammonia or an ammonium salt, condensing the components of the mixture by heating the mixture in a molten form, and then pulverizing or dispersing the reaction mixture to form a pigment.