Abstract: A silver halide photosensitive material having a substrate, a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer and a photosensitive layer coated thereon and having a silver halide, dye-providing compound and a binder, the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring layer containing a heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition, which is colored at a temperature lower than its discoloration initiation temperature (T) of 60 to 200° C.; which is substantially discolored at a temperature equal to or higher than T; and which does not recover its color once discolored, even when its temperature is lowered to a temperature lower than T again, and the heat-responsive-discolorable coloring composition containing a polymer having a glass transition temperature of 60 to 200° C.

Abstract: The present invention related to an ink for an ink jet comprising: a coloring composition containing coloring particulates dispersed in a water-based medium, the coloring particulates containing an oil-soluble polymer and an oil-soluble dye represented by at least one of following formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 each represent a hydrogen atom or a non-metallic atomic group; X represents —OH or NR5R6; R5 and R6 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R7, R8 and R9 each represent a hydrogen atom or a non-metallic atomic group; at least one of R1 and R2, or R2 and R5, or R5 and R6, or R6 and R3, or R3 and R4 may form a ring structure; and R7 and R8 may bind together to form a ring structure

Abstract: Disclosed is a silver halide photographic light-sensitive material having one or more layers including a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer on a support, wherein any of the layers contains the specific fluorine compound. The silver halide photographic light-sensitive material can be stably produced and is imparted with antistatic property.

Abstract: A photothermographic material of the present invention comprises: a support; a photosensitive silver halide; a non-photosensitive organic silver salt; a heat developer; a binder; and a fluorine compound containing a specific structure.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion of colored particles, the dispersion comprising: a water-insoluble colorant; an aqueous medium; a polymer obtained by a vinyl monomer; and a dispersant, wherein the dispersion has a high dispersion stability when the water-insoluble colorant is dispersed in the presence of the dispersant, and a latex having a poor dispersion stability is formed when the vinyl monomer is polymerized in the presence of the dispersant alone.

Abstract: An ink for ink jet recording which inclides a water-insoluble ionic group-containing polymer added to a colored fine particle dispersion containing at least a hydrophobic high-boiling organic solvent having a boiling point of 150° C. or more and an oil-soluble dye. In a preferred embodiment, the water-insoluble ionic group-containing polymer is converted by emulsification dispersion into a fine particle dispersion and added to the colored fine particle dispersion, and the oil-soluble dye is represented by specific formulae.

Abstract: A colored particulate dispersion is provided, in which the particle diameter of colored particulates is small and dispersion stability is excellent. Also provided is an ink for ink-jet recording in which there is little dependency on paper such that excellent color formation and color tone are obtained when printing on a freely selected paper, and which has excellent water resistance and light resistance. The colored particulate dispersion contains colored particulates that contain an oil-soluble dye and a block copolymer, which is formed of a hydrophobic segment and a hydrophilic segment. The ink for ink-jet recording contains the colored particulate dispersion.

Abstract: An ink for ink-jet recording which comprises a color composition prepared by dispersing, in a water-based medium, coloring particulates that contain an oil-soluble dye and a vinyl polymer which is obtained through copolymerization of a monomer represented by general formula (I) as follows: 1

Abstract: The present invention related to an ink for ink-jet comprising: a coloring composition containing coloring particulates dispersed in a water based medium, the coloring particulates containing an oil soluble dye and an oil soluble polymer; and wherein the coloring composition has wavelength of maximum absorption (&lgr; max(nm)) in the wavelength range from 510 to 560 nm and when the absorbance at the wavelength of maximum absorption (&lgr; max(nm)) is regarded as 1, the absorbance at a wavelength (&lgr; max+75 (nm)) is no more than 0.2 and the absorbance at a wavelength (&lgr; max−75 (nm)) is no more than 0.4.

Abstract: The present invention related to an ink for an ink jet comprising: a coloring composition containing coloring particulates dispersed in a water-based medium, the coloring particulates containing an oil-soluble polymer and an oil-soluble dye represented by at least one of following formulae (I), (II), (III), (IV), wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 each represent a hydrogen atom or a non-metallic atomic group; X represents —OH or NR5R6; R5 and R6 each represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group or a heterocyclic group; R7, R8 and R9 each represent a hydrogen atom or a non-metallic atomic group; at least one of R1 and R2, or R2 and R5, or R5 and R6, or R6 and R3, or R3 and R4 may form a ring structure; and R7 and R8 may bind together to form a ring structure.

Abstract: An ink for an ink jet includes a coloring composition comprising a dispersion medium and coloring particulates containing an oil-soluble dye represented by formula (1) and a polymer selected from the group consisting of polyurethanes, polyesters, polyamides, polyureas and polycarbonates. The formula (1) satisfies at least one of following (i) to (v): (i) A represents —NR4R5, R4 and R5 each represents independently a C1-18 alkyl group having a substituent group; (ii) At least one of R2 and R7 represents a substituted alkyl group; (iii) R8 represents an aryl group having two or more substituent groups; (iv) Two or more substituent groups represented by —NR170SO2R171 are present in the molecule; and (v) One or more carboxyl groups are present in the molecule.

Abstract: A heat developable image recording material is disclosed in which having at least one image forming layer formed on a support, and a multilayered protection layer consisting of a lower protection layer formed adjacent to and on the image forming layer and at least one upper protection layer formed on the lower protection layer, wherein the lower protection layer comprises a polymer as a binder, in which I/O value of the polymer that is obtained by dividing inorganic value by organic value based on an organic conception diagram is equal to or less than 0.60, and wherein a ratio of the I/O value of the polymer contained as the binder of the lower protection layer to the I/O value of a polymer contained as a binder of the upper protection layer is less than 1.0.

Abstract: A heat-developable image-recording material comprising, on a support, at least one image-forming layer containing an organic silver salt, a reducing agent, and a light-sensitive silver halide, and at least one protective layer provided on the image-forming layer, wherein the image-forming layer and the protective layer contain a polymer latex as a binder, and the polymer latex of the image-forming layer and/or the protective layer comprises a self-crosslinkable polymer latex.

Abstract: A magnetic fluid is produced by adding a solution of N-polyalkylenepolyamine-substituted alkenylsuccinimide in a hydrocarbon solvent to an aqueous suspension of fine particles of ferrites, thereby adsorbing the N-polyalkylenepolyamine-substituted alkenylsuccinimide onto the fine particles of ferrites, distilling off water and the hydrocarbon solvent therefrom, and dispersing the fine particles of N-polyalkylenepolyamine-substituted alkenylsuccinimide-adsorbed magnetites as residues into a base oil of low vapor pressure having a vapor pressure of not more than 0.1 mmHg at 25.degree. C.

Abstract: A bifunctional optically active liquid crystal intermediate compound represented by the following Formula (I): X--Y--C.sub.* H(M)--CH.sub.2 --OH is disclosed, wherein X represents CH.sub.2 .dbd.CH--, HOCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, HSCH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --, HOCH.sub.2 --, HOOC--, HOCH.sub.2 CH.dbd.CH--, CH.sub.3 CH(OH)-- or HOCH.sub.2 C.sub.* H(Z)--; Y represents --CH.sub.2).sub.n or --CH.sub.2 (.sub.m O).sub.l CH.sub.2 --, where n represents an integer of 1 to 18, m represents an integer of 1 to 12, and l represents an integer of 1 to 4; M and Z each represents halogen atom, an alkyl group or an alkoxy group, said halogen atom being selected from the group consisting of I, Cl, Br and F, and said alkyl group or alkoxy group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms; and the mark * represents an asymmetric carbon atom. A process for preparing the intermediate compound is also disclosed.