Abstract: An inkjet head includes a pressure chamber in which ink is stored, a nozzle plate including a nozzle which connects with the pressure chamber, an actuator configured to change a volume of the pressure chamber, and a drive circuit. The drive circuit, before a printing is performed, outputs, to the actuator for a first time period, a first signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber without ejecting ink from the nozzle. A second signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber is then output to the actuator for a second time period such that ink is ejected from the nozzle. A third signal for changing the volume of the pressure chamber to the extent that the ink is not ejected from the nozzle is then output to the actuator for a third time period.

Abstract: An ink set includes an inkjet ink and a recording head filling liquid. The inkjet ink contains a pigment, water, and 1,2-alkanediol with a carbon number of at least 7 or 8. The recording head filling liquid contains a specific surfactant, water, and a specific alcohol compound with a carbon number of at least 10 and no greater than 12. The specific surfactant has an HLB value of no greater than 5.0. An amount of content of the specific alcohol compound in the recording head filling liquid is at least 0.1 ppm and no greater than 1.0 ppm.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inkjet ink that contains a metal complex dye, a polyoxyethylene based compound with which a number average molecular weight Mn is not less than 200, a tackifier with which a hydroxyl value is 30 to 70 mgKOH/g, a first solvent of at least one type selected from a group consisting of ketones, ethers, and esters and with which an SP value is less than 11, and a second solvent being an alcohol including at least an alcohol with 1 to 3 carbon atoms and with which the SP value is not less than 11 and is solvent based and does not contain (excludes) water, is unlikely to cause cogation, is also excellent in intermittent printing performance, and yet enables a character of excellent fixing property and abrasion resistance to be printed on a surface of a printing object with a non-absorbing property.

Abstract: A radiation-curing ink jet ink composition includes a urethane (meth)acrylate including one (meth)acryloyl group, the amount of the urethane (meth)acrylate being 5.0% by mass or more and 30.0% by mass or less of the total amount of the ink composition, and a (meth)acrylate including an aromatic ring and one (meth)acryloyl group, the amount of the (meth)acrylate being 4.0% by mass or more and 50.0% by mass or less of the total amount of the ink composition.

Abstract: A set of compositions for ink jet textile printing includes an ink composition and a coating composition, the ink composition containing a pigment, resin particles, and water, and the coating composition containing resin particles and water. The resin particles contained in the ink composition contain any of a urethane resin, a polycarbonate resin, an acrylic resin, and a styrene resin. The amount of the resin particles in the ink composition is from 1 to 5 parts by mass on a solids basis per part by mass of the pigment on a solids basis. The Young's modulus of dried film of the ink composition is from 1 to 25 MPa, and that of dried film of the coating composition is 50 MPa or less and higher than that of dried film of the ink composition.

Abstract: A coating composition comprises at least one solvent, at least one resin, and at least one filler, wherein the filler is silica-deficient, sodium-potassium alumina silicate. The silica-deficient filler may be a sodium-potassium alumina silicate that contains less than 0.1 percent by weight crystalline silica and is 5 percent by weight or less of the coating composition or 1 percent by weight or less of the coating composition. In the later instance, the coating composition contains less than 0.001 percent crystalline silica. The resin may comprise styrene, styrenic copolymers, or mixtures including styrene. The composition provides a temporary gloss coating that may be removed physically, as by peeling for example. A method for coating a substrate with a coating that maybe removed by physical means is also provided. The method comprises applying the disclosed coating composition.

Abstract: Disclosed is a retro-reflective fabric, having an inner surface and an outer surface; one or more strands of retro-reflective yarn incorporated into the fabric; and a reflective ink coupled to the outer surface of the fabric. Also provided is a method of making a retro-reflective fabric, including: providing a coated retro-reflective yarn; incorporating the coated retro-reflective yarn into the weave or knit of a fabric; and disposing a reflective ink into an outward facing surface of the fabric.

Abstract: This invention provides an inkjet ink comprising: an ?,?-unsaturated ether monomer in which the only radiation-curable functional groups present in the monomer are ?,?-unsaturated ether groups; a tri- or higher functionality (meth)acrylate monomer in which the only radiation-curable functional groups present in the monomer are acrylate groups; and a colouring agent; wherein the ink contains less than 5% by weight of water and volatile organic solvents in total, and less than 10% by weight of mono- and di-functional monomers in total, other than the ?,?-unsaturated ether monomer, where the amounts by weight are based on the total weight of the ink, and wherein the ink has a viscosity of less than 100 mPas at 25° C. The ink is particularly suitable for printing onto food packaging.

Abstract: Provided is an ink containing water, a plurality of organic solvents, a color material, and resin particles, wherein the plurality of organic solvents contain at least one compound having a hydrogen bond term ?H, which is a Hansen solubility parameter, of 4.1 MPa1/2 or higher but 9.5 MPa1/2 or lower and a boiling point of 170° C. or higher and at least one diol compound containing 3 or 4 carbon atoms.

Abstract: An aqueous ink jet composition includes a first component which is at least one selected from the group consisting of C.I. Solvent Yellow 160: 1, C.I. Disperse Yellow 82, and C.I. Disperse Yellow 184; a second component which is a dispersant having at least one chemical structure of a sulfo group and a salt thereof; and a third component which has a coumarin skeleton and at least one chemical structure of a sulfo group and a salt thereof.

Abstract: The invention relates to polymer comprising structural units according to formula (I), R1—X—(C?O)—NH—R2—NH—(C?O)—O—POA-R3—(O—POA-R4)n wherein R1 represents an organic group terminated by a hydrocarbyl group having 6 to 50 carbon atoms, X represents O or N—R5, wherein R5 represents a hydrogen atom or a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, R2 represents an aliphatic hydrocarbyl group having 4 to 40 carbon atoms, POA represents a polyoxyalkylene group, R3 represents an organic group having 2 to 40 carbon atoms, n is an integer from 1 to 6, R4 is independently selected from —(C?O)—NH—R2—NH—(C?O)—X—R1, —(C?O)—NH—R1, —R6, wherein R6 represents a hydrogen atom or an aliphatic or aromatic group having 1 to 24 carbon atoms, and wherein the polymer has an average of at least 1.8 end groups R1 per molecule, a number average molecular weight in the range of 2000 to 100000 Daltons, a polydispersity in the range of 1.0 to 5.0, wherein the quotient of the polydispersity divided by (n+1) is less than 1.

Abstract: A method may be provided for manufacturing coated panels of the type including at least a substrate and a top layer with a motif. The top layer may be provided on the substrate. The method may involve providing a synthetic material layer on the substrate. A relief may be provided on the surface of said synthetic material layer provided on the substrate. The relief may include a pattern of recesses. The pattern may be at least partially determined by at least one print that is applied by inkjet printing. The relief may be obtained by printing a mask directly on or in the synthetic material layer. After providing the mask, the synthetic material layer may be cured. The mask may provide for selective curing of the synthetic material layer, such that the synthetic material layer is not solidified or solidified at a lesser extent in correspondence of the mask.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an energy curable ink or coating composition comprising a low migration photoinitiator, and at least one multifunctional hybrid monomer having a polymerizable (meth)acrylate group and a polymerizable vinylether group, and electrically insulating dielectric layers for use in printed electronic devices formed upon curing the ink or coating composition.

Abstract: A pigmentary particulate material selected from the group consisting of titanium dioxide, doped titanium dioxide, and a mixture of titanium dioxide and doped titanium dioxide. The pigmentary particulate material has a mean crystal size of from 0.3 to 0.5 microns, a crystal size distribution such that ?40 wt.-% of the pigmentary particulate material has a crystal size of from 0.3 to 0.5 microns, and a ratio of a mean particle size to the mean crystal size of ?1.25.

Abstract: The present invention provides a photocurable ink composition for ink jet recording with excellent curability. The photocurable ink composition for ink jet recording includes polymerizable compounds, a photopolymerization initiator, and a colorant, wherein the polymerizable compounds include a vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate represented by general formula (I): CH2?CR1—COOR2—O—CH?CH—R3??(I) (wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 is a divalent organic residue having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R3 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic residue having 1 to 11 carbon atoms) and phenoxyethyl (meth)acrylate.

Abstract: The present invention provides a semiconductor container which is made of composite material. The composite material is selected from a group consisting of a graphene material doped cycloolefin copolymer (COC), a graphene material doped cycloolefin polymer (COP) and a graphene material doped cyclic block copolymer (CBC). The content of the graphene material ranges from 0.6% to 8.0% by weight in each composite material.

Abstract: [Problem] To provide a surface treatment polymer. [Solution] A compound represented by formula (1), and a surface treatment agent including the compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a cleaning composition for a liquid crystal alignment layer, a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal alignment layer using the same, and a liquid crystal display device including the liquid crystal alignment layer manufactured by the manufacturing method. More specifically, the present invention relates to a cleaning composition for a liquid crystal alignment layer that is capable of solving a non-uniformity problem of the liquid crystal alignment layer and effectively removing an ionic byproduct on a polymer surface to increase anisotropy of the liquid crystal alignment layer, by using a cleaning composition including a specific solvent in a cleaning process after a UV alignment process, and a manufacturing method of a liquid crystal alignment layer.

Abstract: A printing method includes discharging a first white ink comprising a first white pigment and a second white ink containing a second white pigment by a discharging head, wherein the following relationship is satisfied: |RA?RB|?0.5, where RA represents a refractive index of the first white pigment and RB represents a refractive index of the second white pigment.

Abstract: A coating composition comprises at least one solvent, at least one resin, and at least one filler, wherein the filler is silica-deficient, sodium-potassium alumina silicate. The silica-deficient filler may be a sodium-potassium alumina silicate that contains less than 0.1 percent by weight crystalline silica and is 5 percent by weight or less of the coating composition or 1 percent by weight or less of the coating composition. In the later instance, the coating composition contains less than 0.001 percent crystalline silica. The resin may comprise styrene, styrenic copolymers, or mixtures including styrene. The composition provides a temporary gloss coating that may be removed physically, as by peeling for example. A method for coating a substrate with a coating that maybe removed by physical means is also provided. The method comprises applying the disclosed coating composition.

Abstract: Fireproofing device (1), in particular a fireproofing strip (1), with an elongate support (2), which is produced from a foam material, a non-woven fabric and/or a fibrous body and is provided with an impregnating agent. According to the invention this impregnating agent contains as components at least one liquid medium and a binder for binding solid components of the impregnating agent to the foam material and expandable graphite.

Abstract: There is provided a maintenance liquid, which is used in maintenance of a device equipped with a discharge head for discharging an ultraviolet ray curable-type composition containing the acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator toward an attachment object, including a polymerizable compound in which a saturation solubility of an acyl phosphine oxide-based photopolymerization initiator at 20° C. is equal to or greater than 5.0% by mass.

Abstract: A coating composition having excellent anti-static properties and suitable for use as anti-static hard coating films. The coating composition comprises a radical polymerizable binder and a salt based on an anion including a cage-shaped frame. The anti-static hard coating film formed using the coating composition has excellent anti-static properties, abrasion resistance and moist heat resistance. Such film may be used for an optical laminate a display device, and the like.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a provision unit configured to provide a screen via which a plurality of condition items indicating features of a three-dimensional object can be specified, a reception unit configured to receive, via the screen, a specification of a condition item indicating an feature of an object desired to be molded by a user, and a determination unit configured to determine settings to be used for molding of the object desired to be molded by the user, based on the received specification of the condition item, wherein the settings to be used for the molding determined by the determination unit include molding settings for molding specified with respect to a molding apparatus.

Abstract: A coating composition comprises at least one solvent, at least one resin, and at least one filler, wherein the filler is silica-deficient, sodium-potassium alumina silicate. The silica-deficient filler may be a sodium-potassium alumina silicate that contains less than 0.1 percent by weight crystalline silica and is 5 percent by weight or less of the coating composition or 1 percent by weight or less of the coating composition. In the later instance, the coating composition contains less than 0.001 percent crystalline silica. The resin may comprise styrene, styrenic copolymers, or mixtures including styrene. The composition provides a temporary gloss coating that may be removed physically, as by peeling for example. A method for coating a substrate with a coating that maybe removed by physical means is also provided. The method comprises applying the disclosed coating composition.

Abstract: Curable printing ink compositions include a visible light transparent, UV-curable binder composition and a visible light transparent, and infrared light absorbing inorganic composition. The infrared light absorbing inorganic composition can include infrared absorbing nanoparticles. The ink compositions are capable of flexographic printing at room temperature to a thickness of at least 1.0 micrometer. The cured ink composition has an infrared absorbance of at least 50%. The ink compositions can be printed in patterns of geometric features and cured to form articles.

Abstract: A coated particulate inorganic material includes a particulate inorganic material selected from at least one of titanium dioxide and a doped titanium dioxide, and a coating. The particulate inorganic material has an average crystal size of 0.4-2 ?m. The coating includes a first and second layer. The first layer includes an inorganic oxide and/or an inorganic phosphate. The second layer is alumina. The first layer is from 0.1 to 2.2% w/w based on a total weight of the first layer with respect to a total weight of the particulate inorganic material. The second layer is 0.1 to 3.5% w/w based on a total weight of the second layer with respect to the total weight of the particulate inorganic material. The coating is from 0.2 to 4.5% w/w based on the total weight of the first and second layer with respect to the total weight of the particulate inorganic material.

Abstract: An ink composition including a metal salt amine complex; wherein the metal salt amine complex is formed from a metal salt and an amine; a compound selected from the group consisting of a stable free radical, a photoacid generator, and a thermal acid generator; and an optional solvent. A process including forming a metal salt amine complex; adding a compound selected from the group consisting of a stable free radical, a photoacid generator, and a thermal acid generator to the metal salt amine complex to form an ink. A process forming conductive features on a substrate with the ink composition.

Abstract: In the present invention, a p-type silicon substrate is produced, a solution containing aluminum is misted, and the misted solution is sprayed onto the back surface of the p-type silicon substrate under non-vacuum to form a back surface passivation film made of the aluminum oxide film on the back surface of the p-type silicon substrate. Thereafter, a light irradiation processing in which an interface between the p-type silicon substrate and the back surface passivation film is irradiated with ultraviolet light is performed.

Abstract: An ink set includes a white ink including a hollow particle accounting for 5.0 to 25.0 percent by mass of the white ink and a non-white ink, wherein, in an infrared spectrum for a dried film of the white ink, a ratio (Y/X) of the maximum value Y in an absorption band of from 1720 to 1740 cm?1 to the maximum value X in an absorption band of from 1590 to 1610 cm?1, is from 3.0 to 6.0, wherein the non-white ink has a surface tension of from 20.0 to 30.0 mN/m at a bubble lifetime of 1500 ms.

Abstract: Provided are an active energy ray-curable composition that has good antistatic properties, scratch resistance, and transparency after curing, and an antistatic film using the same. The active energy ray-curable composition of the present invention is an active energy ray-curable composition, including a photopolymerization initiator A represented by the following Formula (I), an antistatic polymer B, and a polymerizable compound C containing an ethylenically unsaturated group, in Formula (I), V1, V2, V3, and V4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and n represents an integer of 1 to 5.

Abstract: The present invention relates to specific Ga-naphthalocyanine chromophores with short chain alkoxy axial substituents, their use as almost colourless IR absorbers, for optical filter applications; especially for plasma display panels, or for laser welding of plastics. The compounds may be used in compositions for inks, paints and plastics, especially in a wide variety of printing systems and are particularly well-suited for security applications.

Abstract: An ink jet recording method according to the present embodiment includes ejecting a water-based ink composition where a content of an organic solvent having a standard boiling point of 280° C. or more is 0.5% by mass or less from a head nozzle and attaching the water-based ink composition to a recording medium, in which a contact angle between at least a part of the surface of the member in contact with the water-based ink composition in the members in the head and the water-based ink composition is 30° or less, and the surface of the member in contact with the water-based ink composition is formed of a material having an SP value of 9 or less.

Abstract: An ink contains a volatile solvent, a pigment including an inorganic hollow particle having a spherical form, and a resin particle.

Abstract: An actinic ray-curable-type inkjet ink set for three-dimensional printing and a three-dimensional printing system are provided. The actinic ray-curable-type inkjet ink set for three-dimensional printing includes a white ink composition W and a color ink composition C. The three-dimensional printing system includes printing means for jetting out, a plurality of times, each of a white ink composition W and a color ink composition C using an inkjet head so as to form a color layer on a white modeled object, based on cross-sectional information of a three-dimensional modeled object.

Abstract: Process for producing graphene nanoplatelets, comprising expanding flakes of intercalated graphite and collection of the same in a dispersing medium with forming of a dispersion that is subjected to exfoliation and size reduction treatment carried out by high pressure homogenization in a high shear homogenizer. A dispersion of graphene is obtained in the form of nanoplatelets, at least 90% of which have a lateral size (x, y) from 50 to 50,000 nm and a thickness (z) from 0.34 to 50 nm.

Abstract: The invention discloses a composite material used for catalyzing and degrading nitrogen oxide and its preparation method and application thereof. The invention of the hollow g-C3N4 nanospheres/reduced graphene oxide composite-polymer carbonized nanofiber material is prepared as follow: 1) the preparation of silica nanospheres; 2) the preparation of hollow g-C3N4 nanospheres; 3) the preparation of graphene oxide; 4) the preparation of surface modified hollow g-C3N4 nanoparticles preparation; 5) the preparation of composites; 6) the preparation of composite-polymer carbon nanofiber material. The raw materials used in the process is low cost and easy to get; the operation of the invention is simple and convenient without the use of expensive equipment in the whole process; the composite has high adsorption efficiency of ppb level nitrogen oxide with good repeatability.

Abstract: Provided are an ink set having: a colored ink including a solvent A1 at a content of 30% by mass or more, a polymer C1, and a colorant; and a clear ink including a solvent A2 at a content of 30% by mass or more and a bifunctional or higher-functional (meth)acrylate compound X2 having a weight average molecular weight of 1,000 to 30,000, the clear ink including X2 at a content of 5% by mass or more, in which the solubility of C1 in A2 is 10% by mass or higher; and an image forming method using this ink set.

Abstract: A printing ink composition includes a metal salt of a metal ion and a counter ion, and a viscosity adjusting agent. The metal ion is present as a metal complex of the metal ion and the viscosity adjusting agent, the viscosity adjusting agent includes at least one functional ligand, where the functional ligand may be a monofunctional ligand having one functional group and multifunctional ligands having more than one functional groups.

Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a three-dimensional (3D) printed object for chemical reaction control. The 3D printed object includes a chemical reactant to be released to control a chemical reaction according to a chemical reactant release profile. The chemical reactant release profile is determined based on a shape of the 3D printed object.

Abstract: An ink composition at least contains a compound A having a hydroxy group and a compound B having an aldehyde group as polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether surfactants. The mass ratio of the compound B to the compound A is 0.5×10?4 to 30×10?4.

Abstract: Novel natural oil derived ink vehicles are provided by a two step process that does not require the addition of gelants or the irreversible heat bodying or polymerization of the oil. The gelled natural oil may be used as the vehicle/carrier in the ink formulation or alternatively used as a carrier or dispersant for additives in ink formulations. The gelled ink vehicles disclosed have many advantages over ink vehicles disclosed in the prior art.

Abstract: An ink includes a pigment, a wax, a water soluble solvent including a solvent having an SP value of from 9.0 to 11.0, and water, wherein the mass ratio of the content of the wax in the ink to the content of the solvent having an SP value of from 9.0 to 11.0 is in a range of from 1.0:2.5 to 1.0:25.0.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an ink formulation comprising two-dimensional inorganic layered particles. The ink formulations of the present invention are for inkjet printing. The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of these ink formulations, to the use of these ink formulations for the production of printed films and tracks comprising the inorganic material, to the films or tracks produced by the inkjet printing these ink formulations, and to devices that comprise these films or tracks.

Abstract: An aqueous ink for ink jet, the aqueous ink containing a pigment and a resin. The pigment is impregnated with a compound having a structure in which at least two structures each represented by General Formula (1) are bonded by a glycoside bond.

Abstract: A non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition that comprises a structured network forming agent in an amount ranging from about 0.1 wt % to about 20 wt % by total weight of the ink composition; a salt in an amount ranging from about 0.05 wt % to about 20 wt % by total weight of the ink composition; an organic solvent; a photo-initiator; and a polymerizable material; wherein the ink composition has a first dynamic viscosity ranging from 25 cps to 10,000 cps at a first state and a second dynamic viscosity ranging from 1 cps to 50 cps at a second state. Also described herein is a method for making such non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition and a method for producing printed images using such non-Newtonian photo-curable ink composition.

Abstract: An aqueous dispersion contains pigment colorant particles (of various types of materials) at 5 weight % and up to and including 80 weight %; a dispersing polymer that is prepared from the Diels Alder adduct of 3-maleimidopropionic acid and furfuryl (meth)acrylate; and an aqueous medium. The weight ratio of the pigment colorant particles to the dispersing polymer is from 19:1 to and including 2:1. This aqueous dispersion can be incorporated into an aqueous inkjet ink composition that can be used in various inkjet printing methods to provide opaque images particularly when titanium dioxide particles are used as the pigment colorant.

Abstract: A photocationically curable ink jet ink includes: a photoacid generator; a pigment; a monofunctional epoxy compound; a bifunctional epoxy compound; a monofunctional oxetane compound; and a bifunctional oxetane compound. In the photocationically curable ink jet ink, a concentration of the monofunctional epoxy compound is 20 wt % to 50 wt %, a concentration of the bifunctional epoxy compound is 20 wt % to 50 wt %, a concentration of the monofunctional oxetane compound is 5 wt % to 20 wt %, and a concentration of the bifunctional oxetane compound is 5 wt % to 20 wt %.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a modified colorant comprising a colorant having at least one polymer attached or adsorbed thereto. The polymer comprises at least one functional group, and various embodiments of the functional group are disclosed. For each of these embodiments, preferably the functional group has a defined calcium index value. Also disclosed are various uses for these modified colorants, including inkjet ink compositions. Thus, the present invention further relates to an inkjet ink composition comprising a) a liquid vehicle, b) at least one colorant, and c) at least one polymer comprising at least one functional group as described herein.

Abstract: Provided is a valve type writing instrument, eliminating the need for frequently making a core pushing-in operation, thus being long-lasting, and causing no blurring of a written character. The valve type writing instrument includes an ink tank barrel; a valve housing cylinder, fitted into the ink tank barrel; and a core, slidably held in the valve housing cylinder, in which an ink reservoir member, reservoiring ink, and a valve unit case, incorporating a valve mechanism are loaded. The ink reservoir member has a truncated cone shape, a core insertion hole being formed so as to be penetrated through the central portion thereof, one half part of core being slidably housed therein, a number of slits for reservoiring ink being radially formed from the core insertion hole, and ink reservoired in the slits being capable of permeating into the housed portion of core in the core insertion hole as needed.