Carestream Health, Inc.

Eastman-kodak Company

Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

Imation Corporation

William Donald Ramsden

Doreen Catherine Lynch

David R Whitcomb

Randall H Helland

Kumars Sakizadeh

Roger A Mader

Terence D Spawn

Chaofeng Zou

Steven H Kong

George V Tiers

Kui Chen-Ho

Bryan V Hunt

Mark P Kirk

Dian E Stevenson

Tran V Thien

Stacy Marie Ulrich

Mark B Mizen

Richard A Newmark

Sylvia A Farnum

Gregory D Cuny

Sharon Mary Simpson

James B Philip, Jr

George J Burgmaier

Gary E Labelle

Stanley C Busman

Jonathan P Kitchin

David G Baird

Richard J Ellis

William C Frank

Jeanne E Haubrich

Charles W Gomez

Mary Christine Brick

Ramanuj Goswami

Margaret Jones Helber

Jeffrey W Leon

Paul A Zielinski

Karissa L Eckert

Lori S Harring

Junping Zhang

LuAnn K Weinstein

Louis F Valente

Andrea Lynnae Hansen

Jonathan P, Kitchin

Daniel E Saddoris

Lori S Bernard

Richard R Oilmann

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.

Nanomaterial preparation methods, compositions, and articles are disclosed and claimed. Such methods can provide nanomaterials with improved morphologies and reduced nitric oxide co-production 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.

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

Incorporation of certain compounds into photothermographic materials provides materials with reduced initial image Dand improved Raw Stock Keeping film stability without unacceptable loss in sensitometric properties. These compounds include certain e-i) zinc salts of an aryl sulfonic acid or of a fluorinated C-Ccarboxylic acid, e-ii) non-encapsulated alkali metal salts of an aryl sulfonic acid or of a fluorinated C-Ccarboxylic acid, and e-iii) fluorinated C-Ccarboxylic acids.

Photothermographic materials incorporating antifoggants

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

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