Avery Dennison Corporation

Ekaterina Vaskova

Christine U Dang

Ali Reza Mehrabi

Dong-Tsai Hseih

Liviu Dinescu

Zhisong Huang

Nagarajan Srivatsan

Kai Yi Li

Reza Mehrabi

Haochuan Wang

Ming Kun Shi

James Johnson

Mohammad Reza Mehrabi

Kai Li

A method is provided for fabricating a construction () having a functional side (). The method includes the steps of: supplying a flexible substrate (); attaching one or more structures () to the substrate () on a surface or side thereof facing the functional side () of the construction (); and forming one or more features, for example, such as fibrils (), on at least one of the structures (), wherein the features have at least one dimension which is at least one of micro-sized or nano-sized.

Functional micro- and/or nano-structure bearing constructions and/or methods for fabricating same

An ink-receptive coating composition. In a preferred embodiment, the composition includes (a) a polyamide, the polyamide comprising an aliphatic polyamide in particulate form, the aliphatic polyamide having a softening point in the temperature range of about 50-250&#xb0; C. and an average particle size of about 1 to 80 microns; (b) a plasticizer, the plasticizer being a solid plasticizer selected from the group consisting of alkyl sulfonamides and aromatic sulfonamides, the solid plasticizer having a melting point in the range of about 50-200&#xb0; C.; (c) a binder, the binder being a thermoplastic polymer delivered as a water-based emulsion or solution, the binder having a Tin the range of about &#x2212;20-120&#xb0; C.; (d) a dye-retention agent, the dye-retention agent comprising at least one cationic polymer; (e) an ink viscosity-modifying agent; and (f) a dispersant, the dispersant being selected from the group of cationic and non-ionic dispersants. The composition may be used to form, for example, an ink-receptive coating as part of an ink-jet recording sheet or a heat-transfer sheet.

Ink-receptive coating composition

A heat-transfer imaging system and a method of using the same. The heat-transfer imaging system includes a heat-transfer sheet and an activating ink. The heat-transfer sheet and the activating ink are specially formulated so that only the areas of the heat-transfer sheet onto which the ink has been printed become adhesive under heat-transfer conditions. This effect may be achieved by designing the sheet to include an ink-receptive coating whose melting temperature is higher than that typically encountered during normal heat-transfer conditions and by formulating the activating ink to include a plasticizer that, when printed onto the ink-receptive coating, lowers the melting temperature of the ink-receptive coating sufficiently so that the modified melting temperature falls within the temperature range encountered during heat-transfer.

Selective heat-transfer imaging system and method of using the same

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Woodside, CA, United States of America

Ekaterina Vaskova