A recording medium is provided which comprises an ink-transporting layer and ink-retaining layer. The ink-transporting layer contains in combination a surfactant and/or a penetrant and a material having the property of fixing a colorant contained in an ink.

Proposed is an interconnection medium which is tolerant of faults in at least one of the conductors. Redundancy is established to components connected to the medium by providing additional conductors and steering the signals between components to appropriate conductors in the event of a fault. Preferably, the conductors are arranged in a way which balances the amount of additional wiring and the amount of added parasitic loading.

In a medium for electrophoresis comprising a polyacrylamide gel formed by crosslinking polymerization of an acrylamide compound and a crosslinking agent in the presence of water, and a modifier, the improvement in which the medium contains a water-soluble polymer and agarose.

A medium for recording optically readable information, comprising a transparent substrate layer, a semi reflective recording layer of a material which can melt, atomize or evaporate under the influence of light, and a separating layer is disclosed. Holes are put into the separating layer with a regular pattern with the holes extending through the complete thickness of the layer.

On the new findings that cyclodextrin shows no cytotoxicity or only slight cytotoxicity on cell growth and that lipophilic substances such as unsaturated fatty acids and lipophilic vitamins when present together with, or included in, cyclodextrin show such effects as cell growth promoting effect and accelerating effect of the productivity of valuable products, a serum-free or serum-reduced culture medium or a substitute composition for serum for a culture medium comprising a cyclodextrin and at ...

A base member is disposed in a reaction chamber and a raw material gas is introduced thereinto which contains at least a compound gas of a first magnetic material, or the compound gas of the first magnetic material and an oxidizing or nitriding gas, or the compound gas of the first magnetic material and a compound gas of a second magnetic material. A plasma generating electrical energy is applied to the raw material gas to obtain therein a stream of plasma of the raw material gas, by which a str...

A recording medium having at least a first inorganic material layer which overlies a predetermined substrate and which exhibits a light absorptivity for projected light, and a recording layer which overlies the first inorganic material layer and whose principal component is an organic material. The first inorganic material layer contains at least one element selected from the group consisting of In, Bi, Te, Sb, Ge, Sn, Pb, Cr, Nb, Ni, Pd, Fe, Pt, Re, Ta, Th, Ti, Zr and Tl and the content of the ...

An artist's medium comprising a rigid backing of non-planar surface, an artist's worksheet and a means for securing the sheet flush to the surface of the backing so that the artist's worksheet has the non-planar contour of the surface of the backing. This medium permits an artist to produce a painting or form of art work on a working surface, portions of which have a different spatial relation, depthwise, with other portions thereof.

A video disc includes a magnetic material applied thereon in such a manner that the orientation of said magnetic material is gradually intensified from the outermost track of the video disc to the innermost track thereof, starting from zero orientation at the outermost track.

A recording medium in which a substrate, an inorganic material layer adapted to absorb light and generate heat, a first organic material layer made of an organic matter containing metal, and a second organic material layer adapted to be deformed or removed by heat are successively stacked. A metal salt of an organic acid, or organic metal compound etc. are employed for the first organic material layer. Owing to the presence of this layer, the recording medium exhibits a stability against changes...