Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft

Waltraud Mueller-Hess

Dieter Mohr

Matthias Kroggel

Karl-Josef Rauterkus

A photosensitive mixture is disclosed that contains a photocurable compound, for example, a diazonium salt polycondensation product, or a photocurable combination of compounds, for example, a photopolymerizable mixture, and a polymeric binder, which binder is a graft copolymer with a polyurethane graft backbone onto which chains containing vinyl alcohol units and vinyl acetal units derived from hydroxyaldehydes are grafted. The mixture is suitable for use in the production of printing plates and photoresists, can be developed with purely aqueous solutions, and gives printing plates distinguished by high resistance to mechanical and chemical attacks.

Photosensitive mixture containing photocurable compound and polyurethane

A photopolymerizable mixture is disclosed which contains:

Photopolymerizable mixture and recording material containing

Disclosed is a graft polymer comprising a polyurethane graft backbone and grafted-on chains comprising vinyl alcohol units and units with lateral styrylpyridinium or styrylquinolinium groups, and also a photocurable mixture comprising the graft polymer and a photosensitive compound, such as a photosensitizer of a negative-working diazo compound. The mixture is suited for the production of printing plates, in particular planographic printing plates, and photoresists. Printing plates prepared from the mixture are distinguished by high photospeed, good developability with aqueous solutions and long print runs.

Graft polymer with unsaturated lateral chains, photosensitive mixture

A photocurable mixture is disclosed that contains a diazonium salt polycondensation product or an organic azido compound as the photosensitive compound and a high-molecular weight polymer as the binder, the polymer being a graft copolymer with a polyurethane as the graft backbone, onto which chains containing vinyl alcohol units are grafted. The mixture is suitable for use in the production of printing plates and photoresists, which can be developed with aqueous solutions. It yields printing plates having a good ink acceptance and long shelf life that produce large print runs.

Photocurable mixture and material containing diazonium salt

Disclosed is a photocurable mixture which is suited for the production of printing plates, in particular planographic printing plates, and photoresists. The mixture comprises a graft polymer comprised of a polyurethane as the graft backbone and grafted-on chains containing vinyl alcohol units and units with lateral, polymerizable or crosslinkable double bonds, and a photosensitive compound, such as a photoinitiator or a negative-working diazo compound. The printing plates prepared from the mixture are distinguished by high photospeed, good developability with aqueous solutions and long print runs.

An electrophotographic copying material is disclosed containing, in the photoconductive film, a high-molecular-weight polymer binder which is a graft polymer having a polyurethane as grafting base and grafted-on chains which contain vinyl alcohol units. The material is suitable, in particular, for the production of printing plates and printed circuits which are highly photosensitive and laminatable even at fairly large film thickness. The films can be treated with mild and toxicologically safe stripper solutions.

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