Provided are a composition, in which, in a case where an absorbance of 500 nm is A.sub.500, an absorbance of 580 nm is B.sub.580, and an absorbance of 600 nm is C.sub.600, an absorbance of A.sub.500/B.sub.580 is 2.0 or more, and C.sub.600/B.sub.580 is 1.5 or more, a color filter, and a hemoglobin sensor having the color filter.

A composition includes: a metal-free phthalocyanine compound; a red colorant; and a solvent, in which a ratio A/B of an absorbance A at a wavelength of 700 nm to an absorbance B at a wavelength of 810 nm is 10 or higher.

A thermal transfer recording sheet including a substrate and a yellow coloring material layer, a magenta coloring material layer, and a cyan coloring material layer frame-sequentially formed on the substrate, wherein at least one of the yellow coloring material layer, the magenta coloring material layer, and the cyan coloring material layer contains a compound with a specified structure.

The present invention discloses a adhesive sheet effectively blocking light in the ultraviolet light region without deteriorating the transmittance with respect to the visible light region and the adhesiveness and a adhesive composition including binder resin and light absorption dye dispersed in the binder resin, and it is possible to effectively block light under the 410 nm wavelength region and to be applied to a various kinds of display devices.

Provided herein are color charts and water color pigment solutions useful, for example, in the calibration of reflectance-based diagnostic analyzers.

The present invention relates to 1,6,7,12-tetra-(2-isopropylphenoxy)-substituted perylene tetracarboxylic acid diimides of the formula (I) wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of each other are selected from hydrogen, C.sub.1-C.sub.24-alkyl, C.sub.1-C.sub.24-haloalkyl, C.sub.3-C.sub.24-cycloalkyl, C.sub.6-C.sub.24-aryl and C.sub.6-C.sub.24-arl-C.sub.1-C.sub.10-alkylene, where the rings of cydoalkyi, aryl, and aryl-alkylene in the three last-mentioned radicals are unsubstituted or substituted as defined in the claims and in the description. Moreover, the present invention relates to the use of said perylene compounds, in particular to the use of said perylene compound(s) in color converters, for data transmission and in security inks for security printing. The present invention also relates to the use of said color converters, to their use in lighting devices, to lighting devices comprising at least one LED and at least said color converter and to a device producing electric power upon illumination comprising a photovoltaic cell and said color converter.

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An aqueous ink jet composition includes a first component which is at least one selected from the group consisting of C.I. Solvent Yellow 160: 1, C.I. Disperse Yellow 82, and C.I. Disperse Yellow 184; a second component which is a dispersant having at least one chemical structure of a sulfo group and a salt thereof; and a third component which has a cumarin skeleton and at least one chemical structure of a sulfo group and a salt thereof.

A coloring compound comprises a triphenylmethane structure having specific substituents.

A coloring composition includes a pigment, a resin, and a curable compound, in which the pigment includes a red pigment, a yellow pigment, and an orange pigment, and a mass ratio of the yellow pigment to the red pigment and a mass ratio of the orange pigment to the red pigment in the coloring composition are yellow pigment/red pigment=1.0 to 2.0/1.0 and orange pigment/red pigment=0.9 to 2.0/1.0, respectively.

A photosensitive coloring composition includes a magenta pigment having an average primary particle diameter of 50 nm or less, a polymerizable compound, a photopolymerization initiator, and an ultraviolet absorber, in which the magenta pigment has a maximum absorption wavelength in a range of 500 to 600 nm, and in a case where an absorbance of the maximum absorption wavelength is 1, a wavelength at which an absorbance is 0.5 is 450 nm or more on a side where a wavelength is shorter than the maximum absorption wavelength and is 650 nm or less on a side where a wavelength is longer than the maximum absorption wavelength.