A photoreceptor for electrophotography, a method for manufacturing the photoreceptor, and an electrophotographic device including the photoreceptor are disclosed. The photoreceptor for electrophotography includes a conductive substrate; and a photosensitive layer that is provided on the conductive substrate and that has an outermost surface layer containing at least a resin binder and an electron transport material. The resin binder is composed of a polyarylate resin having a structural unit represented by a Chemical Structural Formula 1, and the electron transport material is composed of a compound having a structure represented by a Structural Formula (ET2-3). The photoreceptor has high sensitivity, low residual electric potential, no light fatigue and sufficient stain resistance.

A charge transporting layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a polysiloxane resin having a terminal structure represented by the formula (1), at least one selected from the group consisting of a polycarbonate resin A having a structural unit represented by the formula (A) and a polyarylate resin B having a structural unit represented by the formula (B), and a charge transporting substance, wherein the content of the siloxane structure in the polysiloxane resin is not less than 0.5% by mass and not more than 10% by mass based on the total mass of whole resin in the charge transporting layer.

A charge-transporting layer as the surface layer of an electrophotographic photosensitive member contains a charge-transporting substance, and contains, as resins, a resin A having specific structural units and a polycarbonate resin D having specific structural units. The charge-transporting layer has, in a matrix containing the charge-transporting substance and the polycarbonate resin D, domains each containing the resin A.

This disclosure is directed to a plate design for use in variable data digital lithographic image forming devices. The disclosed plate design incorporates surface passivated carbon black filler material particles in a fluorosilicone polymer. The disclosed functionalized carbon black material compositions include hydrophobic carbon black particles passivated with polymerized pentafluorostyrene. The disclosed surface passivated carbon black particles have a diameter in a range of 50 nanometers to 1 micron, and enable enhances dispersion in fluorinated polymers, and fine dispersion in solvent. The disclosed surface passivated carbon black particles are particularly usable for improving operational characteristics of fluorosilocone-based reimageable surface layers of imaging members employed in the variable data digital lithographic image forming devices.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes an undercoat layer containing a resin and a metal oxide particle whose surface has been treated with a compound represented by formula (1), and the resin is a polymerized product of a composition containing a compound having a group represented by formula (2) and a polyol.

Provided is an electrophotographic apparatus that suppresses the occurrence of a pattern memory and enables stable image formation under a high-temperature and high-humidity environment. The electrophotographic apparatus includes: an electrophotographic photosensitive member; a charging unit; an image exposing unit; a developing unit including a toner; a transfer unit; a cleaning unit; and a fixing unit. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a monolayer-type photosensitive layer containing a binder resin, a charge-generating substance, a hole-transporting substance, an electron-transporting substance, and silicon atom-containing particles. The monolayer-type photosensitive layer is a surface layer of the electrophotographic photosensitive member. The charge-generating substance is one of metal-free phthalocyanine or oxytitanium phthalocyanine. The silicon atom-containing particles are one of silica particles or silicone resin particles. The toner includes toner particles each containing a polyester resin having a polyethylene terephthalate segment.