Seamless polymeric belts and processes for the preparation thereof

摘要

Disclosed is a seamless belt comprising a laminate of a conductive polymer layer and a host polymer layer. The process for preparing the seamless belt comprises electrochemically polymerizing onto an electrode a layer of a conductive polymeric material, followed by electrophoretically depositing a layer of a host polymer onto the layer of conductive polymeric material. Also disclosed is an imaging member comprising a substrate and a photogenerating layer, wherein the substrate comprises a laminate as described above. An imaging process which comprises incorporating into an ionographic imaging device an imaging member comprising a laminate of a conducting polymer layer and a host polymer layer as described above, generating a latent image on the imaging member by ion deposition, developing the latent image with a toner, transferring the developed image to a substrate, and permanently affixing the transferred image to the substrate is also disclosed.