Eastman-kodak Company

Bernard D Stich

David Howard Levy

Mark Edward Irving

Thomas B Brust

Mark R Mis

Donald L Black

Stephen Swingley

The present invention is directed to a photothermographic element comprising silver halide, a blocked developer, a coupler, and core/shell particles, each such particle comprising a mixture of at least two non-photosensitive organic silver salts, which particle comprises a center portion comprising a non-photosensitive first organic silver salt and at least one shell portion covering the center portion, the shell comprising a non-photosensitive second organic silver salt. The organic silver salt in the shell has a lower pKsp relative to the organic silver salt in the core. This invention also provides a composition comprising the core/shell non-photosensitive organic silver salt particles, and a method of making the particles.

Core/shell silver donors for photothermographic systems comprising an oxidatively more reactive shell

A high bromide {111} tabular grain emulsion is disclosed in which most of the tabular grains exhibit silver salt epitaxy at a single site. Most of the silver halide epitaxy sites contact an edge region of the tabular grains. These emulsions exhibit chemical sensitization by the epitaxy and surprising lower levels of desensitization by spectral sensitizing dyes.

High bromide tabular grain emulsions with edge placement of epitaxy

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Rochester, NY, United States of America

Bernard D Stich