Toner compositions and processes having reduced or no titania surface additives

    公开(公告)号:US11150568B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-10-19

    申请号:US16369126

    申请日:2019-03-29

    Abstract: A toner including toner particles comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a copolymer toner additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the toner particles, the copolymer toner additive comprising a first monomer having a high carbon to oxygen ratio of from about 3 to about 8; and a second monomer comprising two or more vinyl groups, wherein the second monomer is present in the copolymer in an amount of from greater than about 8 percent by weight to about 60 percent by weight, based on the weight of the copolymer; wherein the copolymer toner additive has a volume average particle diameter of from about 20 nanometers to less than about 70 nanometers. An emulsion aggregation toner process including the copolymer as a toner surface additive.

    Solvent-free phase-inversion emulsification process for producing amorphous polyester resin emulsions

    公开(公告)号:US10907016B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-02-02

    申请号:US16172493

    申请日:2018-10-26

    Abstract: An organic solvent-free phase-inversion emulsification process for a low molecular weight amorphous polyester resin includes forming a mixture by adding to the amorphous polyester resin: i. a surfactant; ii. an aqueous solution of a neutralizing agent; and iii. a portion of water that is about 40% or less of a total amount of water used to form a phase-inversion emulsion, heating the mixture to dissolve the amorphous polyester resin to provide a dissolved amorphous polyester and adding water up to the total amount of water to the dissolved amorphous polyester to form a latex of the amorphous polyester resin. The resultant latex is used in processes of making a toner composition. A latex of an amorphous polyester resins is made by such processes have latex particles that are unimodal.

    Toner Compositions And Processes Having Reduced Or No Titania Surface Additives

    公开(公告)号:US20200310268A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-01

    申请号:US16369126

    申请日:2019-03-29

    Abstract: A toner including toner particles comprising at least one resin, in combination with an optional colorant, and an optional wax; and a copolymer toner additive on at least a portion of an external surface of the toner particles, the copolymer toner additive comprising a first monomer having a high carbon to oxygen ratio of from about 3 to about 8; and a second monomer comprising two or more vinyl groups, wherein the second monomer is present in the copolymer in an amount of from greater than about 8 percent by weight to about 60 percent by weight, based on the weight of the copolymer; wherein the copolymer toner additive has a volume average particle diameter of from about 20 nanometers to less than about 70 nanometers. An emulsion aggregation toner process including the copolymer as a toner surface additive.

    Toner Process Employing Dual Chelating Agents

    公开(公告)号:US20200225598A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-16

    申请号:US16246898

    申请日:2019-01-14

    Abstract: A toner process including a) mixing reagents comprising at least one amorphous resin, an optional crystalline resin, an optional styrene, acrylate or styrene/acrylate, an optional wax, and an optional colorant to form an emulsion comprising a resin particle; b) adding at least one aggregating agent and aggregating said resin particle to form a nascent toner particle; c) optionally, adding one or more resins to form a shell on said nascent toner particle to yield a core-shell particle; d) adding a first chelating agent and a second chelating agent; wherein said first chelating agent and said second chelating agent are different; e) freezing particle growth to form an aggregated toner particle; f) coalescing said aggregated toner particle to form a toner particle; and g) optionally, collecting said toner particle.

    SPHERICAL PARTICLES COMPRISING CARBON NANOMATERIAL-GRAFT-POLYAMIDE AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USES THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220363840A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-17

    申请号:US17321823

    申请日:2021-05-17

    Abstract: A nonlimiting example method of forming highly spherical carbon nanomaterial-graft-polyamide (CNM-g-polyamide) polymer particles may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising: (a) carbon nanomaterial-graft-polyamide (CNM-g-polyamide), wherein the CNM-g-polyamide particles comprises: a polyamide grafted to a carbon nanomaterial, (b) a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the polyamide of the CNM-g-polyamide, optionally (c) a thermoplastic polymer not grafted to a CNM, and optionally (d) an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the polyamide of the CNM-g-polyamide and the thermoplastic polymer, when included, and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the CNM-g-polyamide in the carrier fluid; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature to form CNM-g-polyamide particles; and separating the CNM-g-polyamide particles from the carrier fluid.

    SPHERICAL PARTICLES COMPRISING CARBON NANOMATERIAL-GRAFT-POLYURETHANE AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION AND USES THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20220363800A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-17

    申请号:US17321877

    申请日:2021-05-17

    Abstract: A nonlimiting example method of forming highly spherical carbon nanomaterial-graft-polyurethane (CNM-g-polyurethane) particles may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising: (a) carbon nanomaterial-graft-polyurethane (CNM-g-polyurethane), wherein the CNM-g-polyurethane particles comprises: a polyurethane grafted to a carbon nanomaterial, (b) a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the polyurethane of the CNM-g-polyurethane, optionally (c) a thermoplastic polymer not grafted to a CNM, and optionally (d) an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the polyurethane of the CNM-g-polyurethane and the thermoplastic polymer, when included, and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the CNM-g-polyurethane in the carrier fluid; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature to form CNM-g-polyurethane particles; and separating the CNM-g-polyurethane particles from the carrier fluid.

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