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Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Imation Corporation

Doreen Catherine Lynch

William Donald Ramsden

Sharon Mary Simpson

Chaofeng Zou

Stacy Marie Ulrich

Paul G Skoug

David R Whitcomb

Kui Chen-Ho

Brian C Willett

Henry J Gysling

Roger A Mader

James B Philip, Jr

George J Burgmaier

Andrew W Mott

Takuzo Ishida

Justine A Mooney

Steven M Shor

Robert J Nairne

James R Miller

Stephen S Poon

Duncan M Grieve

John H Stibbard

Andrea L Opatz

David C Bays

Mary Christine Brick

Kumars Sakizadeh

Ramanuj Goswami

Margaret Jones Helber

Kim Marie Vogel

Jeffrey W Leon

Kevin D Landgrebe

Gilbert L Eian

Raymond J Kenney

Steven H Kong

Peggy S Willett

Gary E Labelle

Paul A Zielinski

Karissa L Eckert

Richard R Ollmann, Jr

John M Winslow

Tran V Thien

David G Baird

Robert J Devoe

Mark C Skinner

Dirk J Hasberg

Kenneth L Hanzalik

Junping Zhang

LuAnn K Weinstein

Andrea Lynnae Hansen

Gary L Featherstone

Richard R Oilmann

Lu Ann Sidney

Becky J Kummeth

William E Bottomley

Preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed and claimed. Methods for reducing metal ions to metals, the metal products, and articles comprising the metal products are claimed. Such methods show improved reproducibility upon scale-up than previous methods, resulting in products that exhibit reduced variability. The claimed inventions are useful for electronic and optical applications.

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles

Nanomaterial preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed and claimed. Such methods can provide nanomaterials with improved morphologies relative to previous methods. Such materials are useful in electronic applications.

Methods of producing metal nanowires, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such methods allow production of metal nanowires with reproducibly uniform diameter and length, even in the presence of catalyst concentration variation. Such metal nanowires are useful for electronics applications.

Methods of recovering compositions comprising nanowires and the product compositions are disclosed and claimed. The product compositions produced by these methods are able to provide equivalent performance to virgin raw materials in transparent conductive film manufacturing processes.

Nanowire recovery methods, compositions, and articles

Nanowire preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed. Such nanowires may be thicker than other nanowires and may be useful in devices requiring high electrical current densities.

Methods of producing metal nanowires employing tubular continuous-flow reactors and their products are described and claimed. Such methods can provide superior nanowire uniformity without agglomeration. Such nanowires are useful for electronic applications.

Mixtures of an alkyl vinyl ether/maleic anhydride copolymer or an alkylethylene/maleic anhydride copolymer with cellulose acetate provide protective overcoats for thermally developable materials. These protective overcoats exhibit good adhesion to the emulsion layer, are physically hard, and have good optical clarity while maintaining the sensitometric properties of the materials.

Protective overcoats for thermally developable materials

Use of certain compounds in black-and-white photothermographic materials improves processing latitude particularly under conditions of high humidity.

Processing latitude stabilizers for photothermographic materials

Bis phenol reducing agents incorporating bicyclic and tricyclic substituents ortho to the hydroxyl groups on the aromatic rings have been found to provide photothermographic materials with improved silver efficiency and stability without significant loss in sensitometric properties.

Photothermographic reducing agents with bicyclic or tricyclic substitution

Photothermographic materials contain one or more blocked aliphatic thiol compounds in an amount of at least 1 mg/mas stabilizers. These compounds have a calculated octanol-water partition coefficient (c log P value) of 2.0 or greater, and an N value equal to or greater than 6.5.

Blocked aliphatic thiol stabilizers for photothermographic materials

Black-and-white, dry processable thermally developable materials have increased stability after imaging with the incorporation of at least 0.0001 mol/mof a thermal solvent having one or more &#x3e;N&#x2014;C(&#x2550;O)&#x2014; groups. Such thermally developable materials include both thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Thermally developable materials containing thermal solvents

High-speed aqueous-based black-and-white photothermographic materials are imageable in any suitable fashion using ultraviolet, visible, infrared, or X-radiation. They can have one or more thermally developable imaging layers on either or both sides of the support and can be imaged with or without a phosphor intensifying screen in an imaging assembly. The photothermographic emulsions and materials have a net Dless than 0.25, and require less than 1 erg/cmto achieve a density of 1.00 above net D. The imaging layers include hydrophilic binders or water-dispersible latex polymer binders and chemically and spectrally sensitized photosensitive silver halide grains.

High-speed thermally developable imaging materials

Solid particle dispersions of certain ascorbic acid esters are prepared in the presence of at least 0.5 and less than 50 weight % of a particle growth modifier based on the weight of the ascorbic acid ester. The particle growth modifier is an alkyl carboxylic acid having from 8 to 22 carbon atoms, an alkyl ester of glycerol wherein the alkyl moiety has from 8 to 22 carbon atoms, or a stereoisomer of the ascorbic acid ester. The resulting aqueous solid particle dispersion can be used in various thermally developable materials including thermographic and photothermographic materials.

Developer dispersions for thermally developable materials

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