Abstract:
A compound having formula (3) 1 wherein: D3 is an electron donor moiety; C3 is a conjugated bridging moiety; A3 is an electron acceptor moiety; S3 is a hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic moiety, or a hetero-acyclic moiety; and bnull is an integer.
Abstract:
A compound having formula (6) 1 wherein: D6 is an electron donor moiety; C6 is a conjugated bridging moiety; A6 is an electron acceptor moiety; R6 is a spacer moiety; S6 is a hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic moiety, or a hetero-acyclic moiety; cnull is an integer; Z6 is a polymerizable moiety; and enullnull is the degree of polymerization.
Abstract:
A display device including: (a) a plurality of microcapsules each including a polymerized, optionally hardened, micelle shell encapsulating a single bichromal ball in a liquid droplet, the ball having two hemispheric surfaces, one surface differing from the other surface in both color and electrical characteristics, and wherein the color of the bichromal ball is discernable through the shell and the liquid droplet; and (b) a substrate to receive the microcapsules.
Abstract:
The present invention comprises an electromagnetophoretic ink material for use as electronic and magnetic display elements. In particular, the present invention relates to the preparation and use of microencapsulated aspect elements having both an electrostatic layer and a magnetic layer, and that can be addressed to produce a display aspect by the application of external electric fields and external magnetic fields.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an electrophoretic ink comprising a suspending fluid and, suspended in the suspending fluid, a plurality of particles comprising a mixture of a chelating agent and a spiropyran material of the formula 1 wherein n is an integer representing the number of repeat nullCH2null units and R is nullH or nullCHnullCH2, the particles being free to migrate within the suspending fluid under the influence of an electric field.
Abstract:
Disclosed are marking particles comprising a resin, a chelating agent, and a spiropyran material which is of the formula 1 The marking particles are prepared by an emulsion aggregation process.
Abstract:
A compound having formula (4) 1 wherein: D4 is an electron donor moiety; C4 is a conjugated bridging moiety; A4 is an electron acceptor moiety; S4 is a hydrocarbon, a heterocyclic moiety, or a hetero-acyclic moiety; bnull is an integer; Z4 is a polymerizable moiety; and enull is the degree of polymerization.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for separating encapsulated particles from empty shells. One method involves providing a mixture including at least one dipolar particle encapsulated in a shell and at least one shell which does not encapsulate a dipolar particle. The mixture is positioned in a spatially inhomogeneous electric or magnetic field and at least one encapsulated dipolar particle is isolated from the mixture.
Abstract:
A dynamic reimageable document or electric paper can be formed from ordinary substrates such as paper, transparencies or fabric by printing of microencapsulated Gyricon beads onto one or more discrete surface areas of the substrate. The substrate can include both fixed print regions formed by conventional fixed ink processes and dynamic reimageable regions formed by the Gyricon beads. The Gyricon beads are preferably bichromal and of contrasting colors, such as black/white so as to be changeable to display two states by selective application of electromagnetic force to the beads. By providing bichromal beads in differing color combinations, such as red/white and black/white, a multi-colored document can be achieved in which various fields of the document, representing text, images or graphics, may be in differing colors. Moreover, operations to perform both imaging or erasure can act on the discrete reimageable regions so that the versatility of the electric paper can be enhanced. The Gyricon beads may be dispersed in a solution to form a liquid Gyricon toner that can be directly marked, such as by a jet nozzle, into a desired pattern on the substrate.