Eastman-kodak Company

J Robin Cowdery

Ralph H Young

Michael R Detty

Wayne Thomas Ferrar

David Steven Weiss

John A Sinicropi

Louis J Sorriero

William T Gruenbaum

David B Engel

Electrophotographic charge generating elements comprise a solid electrolyte layer having improved image discrimination. The solid electrolyte layer includes a complex of a silsesquioxane and a charge carrier, and further includes nondiffusible acid scavengers in an amount of at least 0.2 weight %. The acid scavengers are nondiffusible tertiary arylamines having a pKa of at least 4.

Electrophotographic charge generating element containing acid scavenger in overcoat

Electrophotographic charge generating elements comprise a solid electrolyte layer having improved image discrimination and layer adhesion. The solid electrolyte layer includes a complex of a silsesquioxane and a charge carrier, and is adhered to an underlying photoconductor layer using a primer layer that includes specific addition polymers. This primer layer has a resistivity of at least 10.sup.10 ohms/square and contains substantially no free ACTIVE moieties as defined herein. Such groups, when present in the primer layer, appear to reduce image discrimination.

Electrophotographic charge generating element containing primer layer

Certain chemical compounds, which are aromatic heterocyclic-substituted derivatives of 4H-thiopyran-1,1-dioxide, are electron-transport agents. These compounds exhibit good speed and toe voltage properties in electrophotographic elements.

Aromatic heterocyclic-substituted cyclic sulfone compounds and

Certain chemical compounds, which are aromatic heterocyclic-substituted derivatives of 4H-thiopyran-1,1,-dioxide given by the formula (I) wherein Het is a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring system containing at least one 5-membered heterocyclic aromatic ring; and R is an alkyl, aralkyl, or cycloalkyl group of 1 to about 10 carbon atoms, or an aryl group of 6 to about 12 carbon atoms, or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic ring system containing at least one 5-membered aromatic heterocyclic ring, are electron-transport agents. These compounds exhibit good speed and toe voltage properties in electrophotographic elements. ##STR1##

The invention provides a multiactive electrophotographic element comprising an electrically conductive substrate, a charge generation layer, and a charge transport layer, wherein the charge transport layer contains an electron transport agent having the structure: ##STR1## wherein J is H, Cl, Br, alkyl, alkoxy, aryl, or aryl further substituted with halo or alkyl; and wherein R is styryl, aryl, or heteroaryl in which the hetero atom is S or O, each of which R is unsubstituted or further substituted with alkyl, halo, alkoxy, nitro, hydroxy, cyano, trifluoromethyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, alkoxycarbonyl, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, arylamino, or alkylarylamino. Such an element exhibits a good combination of electrophotographic performance properties.

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