Thermally developable materials such as thermographic and photo-thermographic materials include a novel non-photosensitive source of reducible silver ions that are predominantly provided as rod-shaped particles of silver salt of a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic compound containing an imino group. The rod-shaped particles have an average aspect ratio of at least 3:1 and a width index for particle diameter of 1.25 or less, and provide improved imaging properties. These particles can be prepared using double jet precipitation procedures in which vAg is kept constant at a value of equal to or greater than −50 mV.
热显影材料(如热成像材料和光热成像材料)包括一种新型非光敏还原
银离子源,主要以含氮
杂环化合物的
银盐(含亚
氨基)的棒状颗粒形式提供。棒状颗粒的平均长宽比至少为 3:1,颗粒直径的宽度指数为 1.25 或更小,具有更好的成像性能。这些颗粒可采用双喷射沉淀程序制备,其中 vAg 值保持恒定,等于或大于 -50 mV。