An electrophotographic photoreceptor causing no image defect even in long-term use and has excellent wear performance, a method of producing the same, and an electrophotographic device are provided. The electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a photosensitive layer on a conductive substrate. The slope k of a straight line obtained by plotting the average film density of outermost layer and the boiling point of solvent used for the formation of the outermost layer along the ordinate and the abscissa, respectively, is 1.50E-4 (g/cm.sup.3.Math. C.) or greater, and the difference in film density of the outermost layer between the surface side and the side close to the conductive substrate is 0.030 g/cm.sup.3 or less.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member with suppressed potential variation even in the case that a protective layer including a cured material of a composition having a polymerizable functional group is used is provided. An electrophotographic photosensitive member including a support, a charge generation layer, a charge transport layer containing a charge transporting material, and a protective layer, in the order presented, wherein the charge transport layer contains a polycarbonate resin having a structure selected from a group A and a structure selected from a group B, and the protective layer includes a cured material of a composition containing a compound having at least a functional group selected from chain-polymerizable functional groups and sequential polymerizable functional groups.

An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate and a single-layer-type photosensitive layer on the conductive substrate. The single-layer-type photosensitive layer contains a binder resin, a charge generating material, an electron transporting material, and two hole transporting materials having different redox potentials. The two hole transporting materials are a hole transporting material A and a hole transporting material B that has a redox potential lower than that of the hole transporting material A. The ratio A/B of a weight of the hole transporting material A to a weight of the hole transporting material B is about 12/1 or more and about 36/1 or less.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, and a binder resin. The binder resin contains a polyarylate resin represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), r and s each represent an integer of at least 0 and no greater than 49 and t and u represents an integer of at least 1 and no greater than 50. Furthermore, r+s+t+u=100 and r+t=s+u. X and Y each represent, independently of one another, a divalent group represented by chemical formula (1-1), (1-2), (1-3), or (1-4).

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An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a single-layer photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin. The binder resin contains a polyarylate resin. The polyatylate resin is represented by general formula (1). The hole transport material contains a compound represented by general formula (HTM1), (HTM2), (HTM3), (HTM4), (HTM5), (HTM6), or (HTM7). The photosensitive layer has a scratch resistance depth of no greater than 0.50 m. The photosensitive layer has a Vickers hardness of at least 17.0 HV.

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Provided is a lamination-type electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive substrate, and a charge transport layer and a charge generation layer both on the conductive substrate, wherein the charge transport layer comprises a charge transport substance represented by the general formula (1), a binder resin, and a particulate silicon compound.

An electrophotographic photosensitive member has a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer is a multi-layer photosensitive layer having a charge transport layer being an outermost layer or a single-layer photosensitive layer. The amount of silica particles contained in the photosensitive layer is at least 0.5 parts by mass and no greater than 15 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of a binder resin contained in the photosensitive layer.

The electrophotographic photoreceptor of the present invention at least includes a charge-generating layer, a charge-transporting layer, and a surface protective layer sequentially deposited on an electroconductive support, wherein the charge-transporting layer contains a charge-transporting material having an ionization potential (IP.sub.A); the surface protective layer contains a binder resin and a metal oxide microparticle having an ionization potential (IP.sub.B); and the ionization potential (IP.sub.A) and the ionization potential (IP.sub.B) satisfy the relationship represented by Expression (A): 0.4 eV(IP.sub.AIP.sub.B)0.4 eV.

An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a charge transport layer, the charge transport layer contains a polyester resin (1) having a dicarboxylic acid unit (A) represented by Formula (A) and a diol unit (B) represented by Formula (B), and a charge transport material, and in a case where a value A is a weight-average molecular weight Mw of the polyester resin (1) contained in the charge transport layer divided by 10,000 (A=Mw/10,000), a value of a ratio M1/M2 of a mass M1 of the charge transport material contained in the charge transport layer to a mass M2 of the charge transport layer is defined as Cs, and an average thickness of the charge transport layer is defined as Ds (m), expressions of 5A40, 0.28Cs0.55, 27Ds50, and 2.5(ADs)/(Cs100)70.0 are satisfied. ##STR00001##