Provided is a near-infrared ray absorbing composition containing at least a near-infrared absorber, a metal compound, and a solvent, wherein the near-infrared absorber contains a metal ion, and the metal compound is a compound having a structure represented by the following Formula (I), Formula (II), or Formula (III),

M(OR.sub.1).sub.nFormula (I):

M.sup.n+(OR.sub.2O.sup.).sub.nFormula (II):

(OR.sub.3).sub.n-mM.sup.n+(.sup.OCOR.sub.4).sub.m,Formula (III): in the above Formulas (I), (II), and (III), M represents at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconia, and aluminum; when M represents titanium or zirconia, n=4, m=1, 2, 3, or 4; when M represents aluminum, n=3, m=1, 2, or 3; R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms, and R.sub.1 to R.sub.4 may further have a substituent.

A color material dispersion liquid including a color material, a dispersant and a solvent, wherein the color material contains a compound which is represented by the following general formula (I) and which contains one or more structures selected from the following structures (i) and (ii); wherein (i) A is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing two or more alicyclic hydrocarbon groups, containing a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon group at a terminal position directly bound to N, and optionally containing O, S, N in a carbon chain, and (ii) at least one of R.sup.2 to R.sup.5 is a cycloalkyl group optionally containing a substituent group or an aryl group optionally containing a substituent group.

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A modulator material layer includes a polymer matrix formed of a plurality of cross-linked polymer molecules and a plurality of droplets of liquid crystals within the polymer matrix. A planar macrocycle dye is dispersed within the plurality of droplets of liquid crystals. The planar macrocycle dye can include one or more of a phthalocanine, a porphyrin, a naphthalocyanine, a metallophthalocyanine, a metalloporphyrin, or a metallonaphthalocyanine.

A coloring agent dispersion which contains a satisfactorily dispersed pigment, and results in a photosensitive resin composition capable of forming a cured film when mixed in the photosensitive resin composition; a photosensitive resin composition containing the coloring agent dispersion; a cured product of the composition; an organic EL element provided with the cured product; a method for forming a pattern using the composition; and a method for producing a photosensitive resin composition using the dispersion. In a coloring agent dispersion including a coloring agent which contains a pigment and a dispersant, a dispersant containing a silsesquioxane compound of a specific structure is used.

Provided is an ink composition for ink jet printing containing a coloring material, a water-soluble organic solvent, and water. The coloring material contains a compound A represented by Formula (1) and a compound B represented by Formula (2) and a mass ratio (a/b) of a content a of the compound A to a content b of the compound B is 1.0 or more and 99 or less.

The present invention belongs to the field of natural pigment modification and specifically relates to an oil-soluble beetroot red pigment, its preparation method and application. An aqueous solution containing beetroot red pigment and phospholipids is added to an aqueous solution containing water-soluble proteins and/or water-soluble peptides, and the mixture is dried to obtain an oil-soluble beetroot red pigment composite powder. The powder is subjected to low-temperature ultra-fine grinding to produce ultra-fine oil-soluble beetroot red pigment powder. Finally, the ultra-fine powder is added to vegetable oil and processed through a ball mill-colloid mill cycle to obtain the oil-soluble beetroot red pigment. The oil-soluble beetroot red pigment requires no chemical modification and contains no synthetic emulsifiers or additives. The materials used are natural and safe, improving the light stability and thermal stability of beetroot red pigment, expanding its application scope, and providing a viable alternative to industrially synthesized oil-soluble pigments.

An inkjet ink contains quinacridone pigment, pigment dispersion resin, and aqueous medium. The pigment dispersion resin contains absorbed resin that is absorbed by the quinacridone pigment and unabsorbed resin that is not absorbed by the quinacridone pigment. A ratio of the unabsorbed resin to the pigment dispersion resin is 50 weight percent or less. A sulfur concentration in the 10-fold diluent of supernatant liquid obtained by centrifuging the inkjet ink at 1,050,000 G for three hours is 0.4 ppm or more and 7.0 ppm or less. In an ultraviolet and visible ray absorption spectrum of the 25-fold diluent of the supernatant liquid, light absorbance at a predetermined peak is 0.7 or less. The predetermined peak is a maximum peak in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less.

Provided is a quinacridone solid solution pigment that develops a color more clearly than a conventional pigment does. The quinacridone solid solution pigment includes at least two kinds of quinacridone-based pigments including unsubstituted quinacridone and 2,9-dialkylquinacridone. When a diffraction peak intensity at a diffraction angle 2? of 5.9??0.2? and a diffraction peak intensity at a diffraction angle 2? of 6.4??0.2?, which are obtained by X-ray diffractometry, are represented by T1 and T2, respectively, T1 and T2 satisfy T2/(T1+T2)?0.13.

A modulator material layer includes a polymer matrix formed of a plurality of cross-linked polymer molecules and a plurality of droplets of liquid crystals within the polymer matrix. A planar macrocycle dye is dispersed within the plurality of droplets of liquid crystals. The planar macrocycle dye can include one or more of a phthalocanine, a porphyrin, a naphthalocyanine, a metallophthalocyanine, a metalloporphyrin, or a metallonaphthalocyanine.

Radiation-curable compositions of Pigment Violet 23 are described which can be used advantageously in UV inks for inkjet printing machines. Soiling containing such UV inks, especially within inkjet printing machines, can be removed particularly easily in a contactless procedure with conventional cleaners. The radiation-curable compositions described contain at least one modified Pigment Violet 23 which carries at least one polar functional group of the formula (I):
X-E (I) where X is a bridging group and E is a polar molecule radical.