EP0213964B1 - Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsionen mit Kornoberfläche - Google Patents

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EP0213964B1
EP0213964B1 EP19860306830 EP86306830A EP0213964B1 EP 0213964 B1 EP0213964 B1 EP 0213964B1 EP 19860306830 EP19860306830 EP 19860306830 EP 86306830 A EP86306830 A EP 86306830A EP 0213964 B1 EP0213964 B1 EP 0213964B1
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  • This invention relates to photography. More specifically, this invention is directed to photographic emulsions containing silver halide grains and to photographic elements containing these emulsions.
  • silver halide grains have been the subject of intense investigation. Although high iodide silver halide grains, those containing at least 90 mole percent iodide, based on silver, are known and have been suggested for photographic applications, in practice photographic emulsions almost always contain silver halide grains comprised of bromide, chloride, or mixtures of chloride and bromide optionally containing minor amounts of iodide. Up to about 40 mole percent iodide, based on silver, can be accommodated in a silver bromide crystal structure without observation of a separate silver iodide phase. However, in practice silver halide emulsions rarely contain more than about 15 mole percent iodide, with iodide well below 10 mole percent being most common.
  • silver halide grains when microscopically observed are cubic in appearance.
  • a cubic grain 1 is shown in Figure 1.
  • the cubic grain is bounded by six identical crystal faces.
  • these crystal faces are usually referred to as ⁇ 100 ⁇ crystal faces, referring to the Miller index employed for designating crystal faces.
  • ⁇ 100 ⁇ crystal face designation is most commonly employed in connection with silver halide grains, these same crystal faces are sometimes also referred to as ⁇ 200 ⁇ crystal faces, the difference in designation resulting from a difference in the definition of the basic unit of the crystal structure.
  • the cubic crystal shape is readily visually identified in regular grains, in irregular grains cubic crystal faces are not always square. In grains of more complex shapes the presence of cubic crystal faces can be verified by a combination of visual inspection and the 90° angle of intersection formed by adjacent cubic crystal faces.
  • silver halide grains when microscopically observed are octahedral in appearance.
  • An octahedral grain 5 is shown in Figure 3.
  • the octahedral grain is bounded by eight identical crystal faces. These crystal faces are referred to as ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal faces.
  • ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal faces crystal faces
  • the octahedral crystal shape is readily visually identified in regular grains, in irregular grains octahedral crystal faces are not always triangular. In grains of more complex shapes the presence of octahedral crystal faces can be verified by a combination of visual inspection and the 109.5° angle of intersection formed by adjacent octahedral crystal faces.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic illustration of a ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal face, analogous to Figure 2, wherein the smaller spheres 2 represent silver ions while the larger spheres 3 designate bromide ions.
  • silver ions are shown at the surface in every available lattice position, it has been suggested that having silver ions in only every other available lattice position in the surface tier of atoms would be more compatible with surface charge neutrality.
  • the surface tier of ions could alternatively be bromide ions.
  • the tier of ions immediately below the surface silver ions consists of bromide ions.
  • both the cubic and octahedral grains have exactly the same cubic crystal lattice structure and thus exactly the same internal relationship of silver and halide ions.
  • the two grains differ only in their surface crystal faces. Note that in the cubic crystal face of Figure 2 each surface silver ion lies immediately adjacent five halide ions, whereas in Figure 4 the silver ions at the octahedral crystal faces each lie immediately adjacent only three halide ions.
  • rhombic dodecahedral silver halide grains Much less common than either cubic or octahedral silver halide grains are rhombic dodecahedral silver halide grains.
  • a rhombic dodecahedral grain 7 is shown in Figure 5.
  • the rhombic dodecahedral grain is bounded by twelve identical crystal faces. These crystal faces are referred to as ⁇ 110 ⁇ (or, less commonly in reference to silver halide grains, ⁇ 220 ⁇ ) crystal faces.
  • ⁇ 110 ⁇ or, less commonly in reference to silver halide grains, ⁇ 220 ⁇
  • the rhombic dodecahedral crystal shape is readily visually identified in regular grains, in irregular grains rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces can vary in shape. In grains of more complex shapes the presence of rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces can be verified by a combination of visual inspection and measurement of the angle of intersection formed by adjacent crystal faces.
  • Rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces can be theoretically hypothesized to consist of alternate rows of silver ions and halide ions.
  • Figure 6 is a schematic illustration analogous to Figures 2 and 4, wherein it can be seen that the surface tier of ions is formed by repeating pairs of silver and bromide ion parallel rows, indicated by lines 8a and 8b, respectively. In Figure 6 a portion of the next tier of ions lying below the surface tier is shown to illustrate their relationship to the surface tier of ions. Note that each surface silver ion lies immediately adjacent four halide ions.
  • photographic silver halide emulsions containing cubic crystal lattice structure grains which contain only regular cubic grains, such as the grain shown in Figure 1, regular octahedral grains, such as the grain shown in Figure 3, or, in rare instances, regular rhombic dodecahedral grains, such as the grain shown in Figure 5, in practice many other varied grain shapes are also observed.
  • silver halide grains can be cubo-octahedral-that is, formed of a combination of cubic and octahedral crystal faces. This is illustrated in Figure 7, wherein cubo-octahedral grains 9 and 10 are shown along with cubic grain 1 and octahedral grain 5.
  • the cubo-octahedral grains have fourteen crystal faces, six cubic crystal faces and eight octahedral crystal faces. Analogous combinations of cubic and/or octahedral crystal faces and rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces are possible, though rarely encountered.
  • Other grain shapes such as tabular grains and rods, can be attributed to internal crystal irregularities, such as twin planes and screw dislocations. In most instances some corner or edge rounding due to solvent action is observed, and in some instances rounding is so pronounced that the grains are described as spherical.
  • crystal faces can take any one of seven possible distinct crystallographic forms.
  • cubic crystal lattice structure silver halides only grains having ⁇ 100 ⁇ (cubic), ⁇ 111 ⁇ (octahedral), or, rarely, ⁇ 110 ⁇ (rhombic dodecahedral) crystal faces, individually or in combination, have been identified.
  • Klein et al "Formation of Twins of AgBr and AgCI Crystals in Photographic Emulsions", Photographische Korrepondenz, Vol. 99, No. 7, pp. 99-102 (1963) describes a variety of singly and doubly twinned silver halide crystals having ⁇ 100 ⁇ (cubic) and ⁇ 111 ⁇ (octahedral) crystal faces. Klein et al is of interest in illustrating the variety of shapes which twinned silver halide grains can assume while still exhibiting only ⁇ 111 ⁇ or ⁇ 100 ⁇ crystal faces.
  • Halwig U.S. Patent 3,519,426 and Oppenheimer et al disclose additions of 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene to silver chloride and silver bromide emulsions, respectively.
  • This object is achieved by providing a silver halide photographic emulsion comprising radiation sensitive silver halide grains of a cubic crystal lattice structure having trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • the invention presents to the art for the first time the opportunity to realize the unique surface configuration of trisoctahedral crystal faces in photographic silver halide emulsions.
  • the invention thereby renders accessible for the first time a new choice of crystal faces for modifying photographic characteristics and improving interactions with sensitizers and adsorbed photographic addenda.
  • the present invention relates to silver halide photographic emulsions comprised of radiation sensitive silver halide grains of a cubic crystal lattice structure comprised of trisoctahedral crystal faces and to photographic elements containing these emulsions.
  • the silver halide grains can take the form of regular trisoctahedra.
  • a regular trisoctahedron 11 is shown in Figures 8 and 9, which are front and back views of the same regular trisoctahedron.
  • a trisoctahedron has twenty-four identical faces. Although any grouping of faces is entirely arbitrary, the trisoctahedron can be visualized as eight separate clusters of crystal faces, each cluster containing three separate faces.
  • faces 12a, 12b, and 12c can be visualized as members of a first cluster of faces.
  • a second cluster of faces is represented by faces 13a, 13b, and 13c.
  • the third cluster of faces is represented by faces 14a, 14b, and 14c.
  • Two faces 15a and 15b of a fourth cluster of faces is visible in Figure 8.
  • One face each, 16a and 17a, of fifth and sixth clusters, respectively, are also visible in Figure 8.
  • the third face 15c of the fourth cluster of faces is visible as well as faces 16b and 16c of the fifth cluster of faces and faces 17b and 17c of the sixth cluster of faces.
  • faces 18a, 18b, and 18c are shown forming a seventh cluster of faces and faces 19a, 19b, and 19c forming an eighth cluster of faces.
  • the trisoctahedron it can be seen that there are three intersections of adjacent faces within each cluster, and there is one face intersection of each clusterwith each of the three clusters adjacent to it for a total of thirty-six face edge intersections.
  • the relative angles formed by intersecting faces have only two different values. All intersections of a face from one cluster with a face from another cluster are identical, forming a first relative angle.
  • the relative angle of adjacent faces 12a and 15b, 12b and 16a, and 12c and 13c are all at the identical first relative angle. All adjacent faces within each cluster intersect at the same relative angle, which is different from the relative angle of intersection of faces in different clusters.
  • the intersections between faces 12a and 12b, 12b and 12c, 12c and 12a are all at the same relative angle, referred to as a second relative angle. While the regular trisoctahedron has a distinctive appearance that can be recognized by visual inspection, it should be appreciated that measurement of any one of the two relative angles provides a corroboration of adjacent msoctahedraI crystal faces.
  • carbon replicas of silver halide grains are first prepared.
  • the carbon replicas reproduce the grain shape while avoiding shape altering silver print-out that is known to resultfrom employing the silver halide grains without carbon shells.
  • An electron scanning beam rather than light is employed for imaging to permit higher ranges of magnification to be realized than when light is employed.
  • the grains are sufficiently spread apart that adjacent grains are not impinging, the grains lie flat on one crystal face rather than on a coign (i.e., a point).
  • a selected grain By tilting the sample being viewed relative to the electron beam a selected grain can be oriented so that the line of sight is substantially parallel to both the line of intersection of two adjacent crystal faces, seen as a point, and each of the two intersecting crystal faces, seen as edges.
  • the grain faces are parallel to the imaging electron beam, the two corresponding edges of the grain which they define will appear sharper than when the faces are merely close to being parallel.
  • the angle of intersection can be measured from an electron micrograph of the oriented grain. In this way adjacent trisoctahedral crystal faces can be identified.
  • Relative angles of trisoctahedral and adjacent crystal faces of other Miller indices can also be determined in the same way. Again, the unique relative angle allows a positive identification of the crystal faces. While relative angle measurements can be definitive, in many, if not most, instances visual inspection of grains by electron microscopy allows immediate identification of trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • cubic crystal faces are parallel to two of the axes and intersect the third, thus the ⁇ 100 ⁇ Miller index assignment; octahedral crystal faces intersect each of the three axes at an equal interval, thus the ⁇ 111 ⁇ Miller index assignment ; and rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces intersect two of the three axes at an equal interval and are parallel to the third axis, thus the ⁇ 110 ⁇ Miller index assignment.
  • Trisoctahedral crystal faces include a family of crystal faces that can have differing Miller index values. Trisoctahedral crystal faces are generically designated as ⁇ hhf ⁇ crystal faces, wherein hand are different integers each greater than zero and h is greater than f.
  • the regular trisoctahedron 11 shown in Figures 8 and 9 consists of ⁇ 331 ⁇ crystal faces. A regular trisoctahedron having ⁇ 221 ⁇ , ⁇ 441 ⁇ ,
  • the emulsions of this invention contain silver halide grains which are bounded entirely by trisoctahedral crystal faces, thereby forming basically regular trisoctahedra.
  • the unrounded residual flat trisoctahedral faces permit positive identification, since a sharp intersecting edge is unnecessary to establishing the relative angle of adjacenttrisoctahedral crystal faces. Sighting to orient the grains is still possible employing the residual flat crystal face portions.
  • the radiation sensitive silver halide grains present in the emulsions of this invention are not confined to those in which the trisoctahedral crystal faces are the only flat crystal faces present Just as cubo-octahedral silver halide grains, such as 9 and 10, exhibit both cubic and octahedral crystal faces and Berry, cited above, reports grains having cubic, octahedral, and rhombic dodecahedral crystal faces in a single grain, the radiation sensitive grains herein contemplated can be formed by trisoctahedral crystal faces in combination with any one or combination of the other types of crystal faces possible with a silver halide cubic crystal lattice structure.
  • deposition of silver halide onto host grains under conditions which favor trisoctahedral crystal faces can initially result in ruffling of the grain surfaces.
  • the ruffles are provided by protrusions from the host grain surface. Protusions in the form of ridges have been observed, but protrusions, when present, are more typically in the form of pyramids.
  • Pyramids presenting trisoctahedral crystal faces on host grains initially presenting ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal faces have three surface faces. These correspond to the three faces of any one of the 12,13,14,15,16,17,18, or 19 series clusters described above in connection with the trisoctahedron 11.
  • pyramids bounded by eight surface faces are formed.
  • the apex of the pyramid corresponds to the coign formed faces 12a, 12c, 13b, 13c, 14a, 14b, 15a, and 15b.
  • the protusions can within a short time of initiating precipitation onto the host grains substantially cover the original host grain surface. If silver halide deposition is continued after the entire grain surface is bounded by trisoctahedral crystal faces, the protusions become progressively larger and eventually the grains lose their ruffled appearance as they present larger and larger trisoctahedral crystal faces. It is possible to grow a regular trisoctahedron from a ruffled grain by continuing silver halide deposition.
  • the grains can take overall shapes differing from regular trisoctahedrons. This can result, for example, from irregularities, such as twin planes, present in the host grains prior to growth of the trisoctahedral crystal faces or introduced during growth of the trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • any crystal face of a silver halide grain is a trisoctahedral crystal face
  • the resulting grain presents a unique arrangement of surface silver and halide ions that differs from that presented by all other possible crystal faces for cubic crystal lattice structure silver halides.
  • This unique surface arrangement of ions as theoretically hypothesized is schematically illustrated by Figure 10, wherein a ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisocahedral crystal face is shown formed by silver ions 2 and bromide ions 3. Comparing Figure 10 with Figures 2, 4, and 6, it is apparent that the surface positioning of silver and bromide ions in each figure is distinctive.
  • the ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral crystal face presents an ordered, but more varied arrangement of surface silver and bromide ions than is presented at the cubic, octahedral, or rhombic dodecahedral silver halide bromide crystal faces. This is the result of the tiering that occurs at the ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral crystal face.
  • Trisoctahedral crystal faces with differing Miller indices also exhibit tiering. The differing Miller indices result in analogous, but nevertheless unique surface arrangements of silver and halide ions.
  • the cubic crystal lattice structure silver halide grains containing trisoctahedral crystal faces can contain minor amounts of iodide ions, similarly as conventional silver halide grains.
  • Iodide ions have an effective diameter substantially larger than that of bromide ions. As is well known in silver halide crystallography, this has a somewhat disruptive effect on the order of the crystal structure, which can be accomodated and actually employed photographically to advantage, provided the iodide ions are limited in concentration.
  • iodide ion concentrations below 15 mole percent and optimally below 10 mole percent, based on silver are employed in the practice of this invention.
  • Iodide ion concentrations of up to 40 mole percent, based on silver can be present in silver bromide crystals. Since iodide ions as the sole halide ions in silver halide do not form a cubic crystal lattice structure, their use alone has no applicability to this invention.
  • trisoctahedral crystal faces account for at least 50 percent of the total surface area of the silver halide grains. Where the grains are regular, the trisoctahedral crystal faces can account for all of the flat crystal faces observable, the only remaining grain surfaces being attributable to edge rounding. In otherwords, silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces accounting for at least 90 percent of the total grain surface area are contemplated.
  • trisoctahedral crystal face becomes large enough to be identified by its relative angle to adjacent crystal faces, it is already large enough to be capable of influencing photographic performance.
  • the minimum proportion of total grain surface area accounted for by trisoctahedral crystal faces is limited only by the observer's ability to detect the presence of trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • the successful formation of trisoctahedral crystal faces on silver halide grains of a cubic crystal lattice structure depends on identifying silver halide grain growth conditions that retard the surface growth rate on trisoctahedral crystal planes. It is generally recognized in silver halide crystallography that the predominant crystal faces of a silver halide grain are determined by choosing grain growth conditions that are least favorable for the growth of that crystal face. For example, regular cubic silver halide grains, such as grain 1, are produced under grain growth conditions that favor more rapid deposition of silver and halide ions on all other available crystal faces than on the cubic crystal faces.
  • an octahedral grain such as regular octahedral grain 5 is subjected to growth under conditions that least favor deposition of silver and halide ions onto cubic crystal faces
  • grain 5 during continued silver halide precipitation will progress through the intermediate cubo-octahedral grain forms 9 an 10 before reaching the final cubic grain configuration 1.
  • silver and halide ions deposit isotropically on these surfaces. In other words, the grain shape remains cubic, and the cubic grains merely grow larger as additional silver and halide ions are precipitated.
  • grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces have been prepared by introducing into a silver halide precipitation reaction vessel host grains of conventional crystal faces, such as cubic or octahedral grains, while maintaining growth conditions to favor retarding silver halide deposition along trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • conventional crystal faces such as cubic or octahedral grains
  • trisoctahedral crystal faces first become identifiable and then expand in area until eventually, if precipitation is continued, they account for all of the crystal faces of the silver halide grains being grown. Since trisoctahedral crystal faces accept additional silver halide deposition at a slow rate, renucleation can occur, creating a second grain population.
  • Precipitation conditions can be adjusted by techniques generally known in the art to favor either continued grain growth or renucleation.
  • silver halide emulsions containing any identifiable trisoctahedral crystal face grain surface are considered within the scope of this invention, in most applications the grains having at least one identifiable trisoctahedral crystal face account for at least 10 percent of the total grain population and usually these grains will account for greater than 50 percent of the total grain population.
  • the emulsions of this invention can be substituted for conventional emulsions to satisfy known photographic applications.
  • the emulsions of this invention can lead to unexpected photographic advantages.
  • a growth modifier when a growth modifier is present adsorbed to the trisoctahedral crystal faces of the grains and has a known photographic utility that is enhanced by adsorption to a grain surface, either because of the more intimate association with the grain surface or because of the reduced mobility of the growth modifier, improved photographic performance can be expected.
  • the reason for this is that for the growth modifier to produce a trisoctahedral crystal face it must exhibit an adsorption preference for the trisoctahedral crystal face that is greater than that exhibited for any other possible crystal face. This can be appreciated by considering growth in the presence of an adsorbed growth modifier of a silver halide grain having both cubic and trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • the growth modifier shows an adsorption preference for the trisoctahedral crystal faces over the cubic crystal faces
  • deposition of silver and halide ions onto the trisoctahedral crystal faces is retarded to a greater extent than along the cubic crystal faces, and grain growth results in the elimination of the cubic crystal faces in favor of trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • Locker U.S. Patent 3,989,527 describes improving the speed of a photographic element by employing an emulsion containing radiation sensitive silver halide grains having a spectral sensitizing dye adsorbed to the grain surfaces in combination with silver halide grains free of spectral sensitizing dye having an average diameter chosen to maximize light scattering, typically in the 0.15 to 0.8 ⁇ m range.
  • Upon imagewise exposure radiation striking the undyed grains is scattered rather than being absorbed. This results in an increased amount of exposing radiation striking the radiation sensitive imaging grains a spectral sensitizing dye adsorbed to their surfaces.
  • spectral sensitizing dyes can migrate in the emulsion, so that to some extent the initially undyed grains adsorb spectral sensitizing dye which has migrated from the initially spectrally sensitized grains.
  • dye migration away from their surfaces reduces sensitization.
  • adsorption of dye on the grains intended to scatter imaging radiation reduces their scattering efficiency.
  • a specific spectral sensitizing dye has been identified as a growth modifier useful in forming silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • radiation sensitive silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces and a growth modifier spectral sensitizing dye adsorbed to the trisoctahedral crystal faces are substituted for the spectrally sensitized silver halide grains employed by Locker, the disadvantageous migration of dye from the trisoctahedral crystal faces to the silver halide grains intended to scatter light is reduced or eliminated. Thus, an improvement in photographic efficiency can be realized.
  • the layer structure of a multicolor photographic element which introduces dye image providing materials, such as couplers, during processing can be simplified.
  • An emulsion intended to record green exposures can be prepared using a growth modifier that is a green spectral sensitizing dye while an emulsion intended to record red exposures can be prepared using a growth modifier that is a red spectral sensitizing dye. Since the growth modifiers are tightly adsorbed to the grains and non-wandering, instead of coating the green and red emulsions in separate colorforming layer units, as is conventional practice, the two emulsions can be blended and coated as a single color forming layer unit.
  • the blue recording layer can take any conventional form, and a conventional yellow filter layer can be employed to protect the blended green and red recording emulsions from blue light exposure. Except for blending the green and red recording emulsions in a single layer or group of layers differing in speed in a single color forming layer unit, the structure and processing of the photographic element is unaltered. If silver chloride emulsions are employed, the approach described above can be extended to blending in a single color forming layer unit blue, green, and red recording emulsions, and the yellow filter layer can be eliminated. The advantage in either case is a reduction in the number of emulsion layers required as compared to a corresponding conventional multicolor photographic element.
  • the substitution of an emulsion according to the invention containing a growth modifier spectral sensitizing dye should produce a more invariant emulsion in terms of spectral properties than a corresponding emulsion containing silver halide grains lacking trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • the growth modifier is capable of inhibiting fog, such as the tetraazaindenes shown to be effective growth modifiers in the examples, more effective fog inhibition at lower concentrations may be expected.
  • photographic effects such as photographic sensitivity, minimum background density levels, latent image stability, nucleation, developability, image tone, absorption, and reflectivity, are influenced by grain surface interactions with other components.
  • components such as peptizers, silver halide solvents, sensitizers or desensitizers, supersensitizers, halogen acceptors, dyes, antifoggants, stabilizers, latent image keeping agents, nucleating agents, tone modifiers, development accelerators or inhibitors, development restrainers, developing agents, and other addenda that are uniquely matched to the trisoctahedral crystal surface, distinct advantages in photographic performance over that which can be realized with silver halide grains of differing crystal faces are possible.
  • components such as peptizers, silver halide solvents, sensitizers or desensitizers, supersensitizers, halogen acceptors, dyes, antifoggants, stabilizers, latent image keeping agents, nucleating agents, tone modifiers, development accelerators or inhibitors, development restrainers, developing agents, and other addenda that are uniquely matched to the trisoctahedral crystal surface.
  • the silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces can be varied in their properties to satisfy varied known photographic applications as desired.
  • the techniques for producing surface latent image forming grains, internal latent image forming grains, internally fogged grains, surface fogged grains, and blends of differing grains described in Research Disclosure, Vol. 176, December 1978, Item 17643, Section I can be applied to the preparation of emulsions according to this invention.
  • Research Disclosure is published by Ken- neth Mason Publications, Ltd., Emsworth, Hampshire P010 7DD, England.
  • the silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces can have silver salt deposits on their surfaces, if desired. Selective site silver salt deposits on host silver halide grains are taught by Maskasky U.S Patents 4,463,087 and 4,471,050, here incorporated by reference.
  • the growth modifier used to form the trisoctahedral crystal faces of the silver halide grains can be retained in the emulsion, adsorbed to the grain faces, displaced from the grain faces or destroyed entirely.
  • the growth modifier is also capable of acting as a spectral sensitizing dye or performing some other useful function, it is advantageous to retain the growth modifier in the emulsion.
  • the growth modifier is not relied upon to perform an additional useful photographic function, its presence in the emulsion can be reduced or eliminated, if desired, once its intended function is performed. This approach is advantageous where the growth modifier is at all disadvantageous in the environment of use.
  • the growth modifier can itself be modified by chemical interactions, such as oxidation, hydrolysis, or addition reactions, accomplished with reagents such as bromine water, base, or acid-e.g., nitric, hydrochloric, or sulfuric acid.
  • the radiation sensitive silver halide emulsions and the photographic elements in which they are invorporated of this invention can take any convenient conventional form.
  • the emulsions can be washed as described in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Section 11.
  • the radiation sensitive silver halide grains of the emulsions can be surface chemically sensitized.
  • Noble metal e.g., gold
  • middle chalcogen e.g., sulfur, selnium, or tellurium
  • reduction sensitizers employed individually or in combination are specifically contemplated.
  • Typical chemical sensitizers are listed in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Section III. From comparisons of surface halide and silver ion arrangements in general the chemical sensitization response of silver halide grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces should be analogous, but not identical, to that of cubic and octahedral silver halide grains. That observation can be extended to emulsion addenda generally which adsorb to grain surfaces.
  • the silver halide emulsions can be spectrally sensitized with dyes from a variety of classes, including the polymethine dye class, which includes the cyanines, merocyanines, complex cyanines and merocyanines (i.e., tri-, tetra-, and polynuclear cyanines and merocyanines), oxonols, hemioxonols, styryls, merostyryls, and streptocyanines.
  • Illustrative spectral sensitizing dyes are disclosed in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Section IV.
  • the silver halide emulsions as well as other layers of the photographic elements of this invention can contain as vehicles hydrophilic colloids, employed alone or in combination with other polymeric materials (e.g., latices).
  • Suitable hydrophilic materials include both naturally occurring substances such as proteins, protein derivatives, cellulose derivatives-e.g., cellulose esters, gelatin-e.g., alkali treated gelatin (cattle, bone, or hide gelatin) or acid treated gelatin (pigskin gelatin), gelatin derivatives-e.g., acetylated gelatin, phthalated gelatin, and the like, polysaccharides such as dextran, gum arabic, zein, casein, pectin, collagen derivatives, collodion, agar-agar, arrow-root, and albumin.
  • hydrophilic colloids which contain a low proportion divalent sulfur atoms.
  • the proportion of divalent sulfur atoms can be reduced by treating the hydrophilic colloid with a strong oxidizing agent, such as hydrogen peroxide.
  • a strong oxidizing agent such as hydrogen peroxide.
  • preferred hydrophilic colloids for use as peptizers for the emulsions of this invention are gelatino-peptizers which contain less than 30 micromoles of methionine per gram.
  • the vehicles can be hardened by conventional procedures. Further details of the vehicles and hardeners are provided in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Sections IX and X.
  • the silver halide photographic elements of this invention can contain other addenda conventional in the photographic art Useful addenda are described, for example, in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above.
  • Other conventional useful addenda include antifoggants and stabilizers, couplers (such as dye forming couplers, masking couplers and DIR couplers) DIR compounds, anti-stain agents, image dye stabilizers, absorbing materials such as filter dyes and UV absorbers, light scattering materials, antistatic agents, coating aids, and plasticizers and lubricants.
  • the photographic elements of the present invention can be simple black-and-white or monochrome elements comprising a support bearing a layer of the silver halide emulsion, or they can be multilayer and/or multicolor elements.
  • the photographic elements produce images ranging from low contrast to very high contrast, such as those employed for producing half tone images in graphic arts. They can be designed for processing with separate solutions or for in-camera processing. In the latter instance the photographic elements can include conventional image transfer features, such as those illustrated by Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Section XXIII.
  • Multicolor elements contain dye image forming units sensitive to each of the three primary regions of the spectrum. Each unit can be comprised of a single emulsion layer or of multiple emulsion layers sensitive to a given region of the spectrum.
  • the layers of the element can be arranged in various orders as known in the art.
  • the emulsion or emulsions can be disposed as one or more segmented layers, e.g., as by the use of microvessels or microcells, as described in Whitmore U.S. Patent 4,387,154.
  • a preferred multicolor photographic element according to this invention containing incorporated dye image providing materials comprises a support bearing at least one blue sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a yellow dye forming coupler, at least one green sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a magenta dye forming coupler, and at least one red sensitive silver halide emulsion layer having associated therewith a cyan dye forming coupler, at least one of the silver halide emulsion layers containing grains having trisoctahedral crystal faces as previously described.
  • the elements of the present invention can contain additional layers conventional in photographic elements, such as overcoat layers, spacer layers, filter layers, antihalation layers, and scavenger layers.
  • the support can be any suitable support used with photographic elements. Typical supports include polymeric films, paper (including polymer-coated paper), glass, and metal supports. Details regarding supports and other layers of the photographic elements of this invention are contained in Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Section XVII.
  • the photographic elements can be imagewise exposed with various forms of energy, which encompass the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as electron beam and beta radiation, gamma ray, X ray, alpha particle, neutron radiation, and other forms of corpuscular and wave-like radiant energy in either noncoherent (random phase) forms or coherent (in phase) forms, as produced by lasers.
  • forms of energy which encompass the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as electron beam and beta radiation, gamma ray, X ray, alpha particle, neutron radiation, and other forms of corpuscular and wave-like radiant energy in either noncoherent (random phase) forms or coherent (in phase) forms, as produced by lasers.
  • X rays can include features found in conventional radiographic elements, such as those illustrated by Research Disclosure, Vol. 184, August 1979, Item 18431.
  • Processing of the imagewise exposed photographic elements can be accomplished in any convenient conventional manner. Processing procedures, developing agents, and development modifiers are illustrated by Research Disclosure, Item 17643, cited above, Sections XIX, XX, and XXI, respectively.
  • This example illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsion having crystal faces of the Miller index ⁇ 331 ⁇ , beginning with an octahedral host emulsion and using as growth modifier Compound I, 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene, sodium salt.
  • FIG. 11 A carbon replica electron micrograph of the resulting trisoctahedral emulsion grains is shown in Figure 11.
  • the Miller index of the trisoctahedral faces was determined by measurement of the relative angle between two adjacent trisoctahedral crystal faces. From this angle, the supplement of the relative angle, which is the angle between their respective crystallographic vectors, ⁇ , could be obtained, and the Miller index of the adjacent trisoctahedral crystal faces was identified by comparison of this angle ⁇ with the theoretical intersecting angle e between [h 1 h 1 l 1 ] and [h 2 h 2 l 2 ] vectors. The angle 0 was calculated as described by Phillips, cited above, at pages 218 and 219.
  • This invention illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsion having crystal faces of the Miller index ⁇ 331 ⁇ , beginning with a cubic host emulsion and using as growth modifier Compound II, 5-bromo-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene.
  • This example illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsion having the Miller index ⁇ 331 ⁇ , beginning with a cubic host emulsion and using Compound III, 4-hydroxy-2-methylthio-1,3,3a,7-tet- raazaindene, as growth modifier.
  • This emulsion was prepared as described in Example 2, exceptthatthe growth modifier was 6 millimole/initial Ag mole of Compound III. The precipitation was carried out for 125 minutes, consuming 0.0625 mole Ag.
  • This example illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsion having crystal faces of the Miller index ⁇ 331 ⁇ , beginning with an octahedral host emulsion and using as a growth modifier Compound IV, 4-amino-6-methyi-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene.
  • Emulsion Example 5 illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsion having crystal faces of the Miller index ⁇ 441 ⁇ , beginning with a cubic host emulsion and using Compound V, 2-imidazolidinethione, as a growth modifier.
  • This example illustrates the preparation of a trisoctahedral silver chloride emulsion having ⁇ 331 ⁇ Miller index crystal faces, using a cubic silver chloride host emulsion and Compound IV as a growth modifier.
  • This example illustrates additional investigations of potential growth modifiers and lists potential growth modifiers investigated, but not observed to produce trisoctahedral crystal faces.
  • the crystal faces presented by the host grains are as noted in Table II. Where both octahedral and cubic host grains are noted using the same growth modifier, a mixture of 5.0 millimoles cubic grains of 0.8 ⁇ m and 2.5 millimoles of octahedral grains of 0.8 ⁇ m was employed giving approximately the same number of cubic and octahedral host grains. In looking at the grains produced by ripening, those produced by ripening onto the cubic grains were readily visually distinguished, since they were larger. Thus, it was possible in one ripening process to determine the crystal faces produced using both cubic and octahedral host grains.
  • a reaction vessel equiped with a stirrer was charged with 0.75 g of deionized bone gelatin made up to 50 g with water. 6-Nitrobenzimidazole, 16.2 mg (0.3weight% based on the Ag used), dissolved in 1mL of methanol, was added, followed by 0.055 mole of KBr. At 70°C 0.05 mole of a 2M solution of AgN0 3 was added at a uniform rate over a period of 25 min. The grains formed were relatively thick tablets showing ⁇ 111 ⁇ crystal faces. There was no indication of the novel trisoctahedral crystal faces of the invention.
  • Samples 9c and 9d were prepared similarly as Samples 9a and 9b, respectively, except that 0.8 mmolelf of 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene and 0.6 mmole/f of 1-dodecylquinolinium bromide were used.
  • Emulsion Example 10 illustrates the preparation of a octahedral silver bromide emulsion having trisoctahedral protrusions on the initially octahedral grains using Compound 10, 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tet- raazaindene, sodium salt, a known antifoggant and stabilizer, as growth modifier. As the precipitation continued, the formation of trisoctahedra became evident.
  • Example 10A To a reaction vessel supplied with a stirrer was added 0.05 mole of an octahedral regular grain silver bromide emulsion of mean grain size 1.35 ⁇ m containing 40 g/Ag mole gelatin. Water was added to make the total weight 50 g. To the emulsion at 40°C was added 6.0 millimole/initial Ag mole of Compound 10 dissolved in 3mL of water. The emulsion was then held for 15 min at 40°C. The pH was adjusted to 6.0 at 40°C. The temperature was raised to 60°C and the pAg adjusted to 8.5 at 60°C with KBr and maintained at that value during the precipitation. A 2.5M solution of AgN0 3 was introduced at a constant rate. For Example 10A the precipitation time was 15 min, using 0.0075 mole Ag. For Example 10B the precipitation time was 30 min, using 0.015 mole Ag.
  • Figures 17A and 17B are electron micrographs showing the resulting emulsions grains of Examples 10A and 10B, respectively.
  • Example 1 OA uniform ruffles formed over he octahedral faces, while new trisoctahedral faces formed along the edges between the original faces.
  • Example 10B the process offorming ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedra is almost complete.
  • Emulsion Example 11 illustrate the formation of trisoctahedral ridges on octahedral silver bromide host grains.
  • the host emulsion and procedure was the same as in Example 10.
  • the growth modifier was 2.0 millimole/initial Ag mole of Compound 98, 3-carboxymethyl-5- ⁇ (3-(3-sulfopropyl)-2-thiazolidinylidene]ethylidene ⁇ rhodianine, sodium salt, a known green spectral sensitizing dye, dissolved in 3mL methanol, 2mL water and 3 drops of triethylamine.
  • the precipitation solutions were 2.0M rather than 2.5M AgN0 3 and KBr.
  • Example 11A the precipitation time was 200 min, using 0.04 mole Ag.
  • Example 11 B the time was 350 min, using 0.07 mole Ag.
  • Figures 18A and 18B are electron micrographs of the resulting emulsion grains produced by Examples 11A and 11 B, respectively.
  • the faces are uniformly covered with ridges running in a direction perpendicular to the (110) Ag rows of the lattice. Trisoctahedral faces have begun to form. In Example 11 B the ridges remain evident, while the macro habit has become ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral.
  • the emulsions of Example 12 describe the effect of precipitation pH on the preparation of ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsions using as growth modifier Compound I.
  • Emulsion 12A Emulsion 12A
  • the pAg was adjusted to 8.5 at 60°C with KBr and maintained at that value during the precipitation.
  • a 2.5M solution of AgN0 3 was introduced at a constant rate over a period of 50 min while a 2.5M solution of KBr was added as needed to hold the pAg constant.
  • a total of 0.025 mole Ag was added.
  • Emulsions 12B, 12C, and 12D are Emulsions 12B, 12C, and 12D.
  • Emulsions were prepared as described for Emulsion 12A, except for different values of pH initially adjusted at 40°C and maintained during the precipitation as listed in Table III.
  • Figures 19A, 19B, 19C, and 19D are carbon replica electron micrographs of the resulting Emulsions 12A, 12B, 12C, and 12D, respectively.
  • the pH range of from 5.0 to 6.0 produced the best ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedra. At pH 7.0 the trisoctahedra were not as well formed. At pH 4.0 octahedra were formed.
  • Example 13 illustrates the effect of precipitation temperature on the preparation of ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsions using the same growth modifier as in Example 12.
  • Emulsions 13A and 13B were prepared as described for Example Emulsion 12B above, i.e. pH of 6.0 at 40°C, pAg 8.5 at precipitation temperature, but in this case with variation of precipitation temperature as listed in Table IV.
  • Figures 19B, 20A, and 20B are electron micrographs of the Emulsions 12B, 13A, and 13B, respectively. As shown in the data of Table IV, trisoctahedra were formed at 60°C and 70°C, but octahedra were formed at 85°C.
  • Example 14 illustrates the effect of precipitation pAg on the preparation of ⁇ 331 ⁇ trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsions using the same growth modifier as in Examples 12 and 13.
  • Emulsion 14 was prepared as described for Example 12B above, i.e. at a 40°C pH of 6.0 and a precipitation temperature of 60°C, but with variation of the precipitation pAg as listed in Table V.
  • Figures 19B and 21 are electron micrographs of Emulsions 19B and 14, respectively. As shown in the data of Table V, trisoctahedra were formed at pAg 8.5, but poorly formed trisoctahedra resulted at pAg 8.0.
  • Example 15 illustrates the effect of level of growth modifier on the preparation of (331) trisoctahedral silver bromide emulsions using Compound I as a growth modifier, as in Examples 12 through 14, but in this case introduced in the free acide form, 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene, rather than as the sodium salt.
  • Example 12A To a reaction vessel equipped with a stirrer was added 0.05 mole of the same octahedral silver bromide emulsion as used in Example 12A above, made up to 50 g with water.
  • the free acid form of Compound I 0.52 millimolelinitial Ag mole, dissolved in 0.75mL water, was added.
  • the pH was adjusted to 7.0 at 40°C and the pAg to 8.0 at40°C. These values were held constant during the precipitation.
  • a 2.0 M solution of AgNO 3 was added at a constant rate over a period of 80 min, while a 2.0 M solution of KBr was added as needed to hold the pAg constant.
  • a total of 0.016 mole Ag was added.
  • Emulsion 15B was prepared as described for Emulsion 15A, except that the amount of growth modifier was increased to 0.70 millimole/initial Ag mole.
  • Figures 22A and 22B are electron micrographs of Emulsions 15A and 15B, respectively. As tabulated in Table VI, incomplete trisoctahedra resulted at the 0.52 millimole level of growth modifier under these precipitation conditions, while complete trisoctahedra resulted when the level was raised to 0.70 millimole.
  • This example illustrates that a trisoctahedral emulsion exhibits an increase in photographic speed at a given fog level as compared to an octahedral emulsion of the same halide composition and grain volume.
  • This control emulsion was precipitated identically to the above trisoctahedral grain emulsion, except the 4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazaindene was added after the precipitation was complete.
  • the resulting grains were octahedral in shape.
  • Emulsions A and B were chemically sensitized as listed below, and then coated on acetate support at 1.08g Ag/m 2 , 4.31g bone gelatin/m 2 , 0.81g of a dispersion of the coupler 2-benzamido-5-[2-4-butane-sulfonylami- dophenoxy)tetradecanamido-4-chloro-phenoll m 2 , 0.14g saponin/m 2 as spreading agent, and 18mg bis(vinylsulfonyl-methyl) ether/g gelatin as hardener.

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1. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion mit strahlungsempfindlichen Silberhalogenidkörnern einer Kubischen Kristallgitterstruktur mit trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen.
2. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach Anspruch 1, in der die Silberhalogenidkörner mit trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen Silberbromidkörner sind.
3. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach Anspruch 1, in der die Silberhalogenidkörner mit trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen Silberchloridkörner sind.
4. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach Anspruch 1, in der die Silberhalogenidkörner mit trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen mindestens einen lonentyp bestehend aus Bromidionen und Chloridionen und gegebenenfalls eine untergeordnete Menge von lodidionen, bezogen auf Gesamtsilber, enthalten.
5. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, in der die Silberhalogenidkörner zusätzlich mindestens eine Kristallfläche bestehend aus Kubischen oder oktaedrischen Kristallflächen aufweisen.
6. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 4, in der die Silberhalogenidkörner reguläre trisoktaedrische Körner sind.
7. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 6, in der die trisoktaedrische Kristallflächen ein Komwachstumsmodifizierungsmittel adsorbiert enthalten.
8. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 7, in der die trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen der Miller-Indexangabe {hhl} genügen, in der h und I Zahlen größer als 0 sind und h größer als 1, jedoch nicht größer als 5 ist.
9. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach Anspruch 8, in der die trisoktaedrischen Kristallflächen einen {331} oder {441} Miller-Index aufweisen.
10. Photographische Silberhalogenidemulsion nach Anspruch 9, in der ein Kornwachstumsmodifizierungsmittel in der Emulsion vorhanden ist, das ausgewählt ist aus 4-Hydroxy-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazainden, 5-bro- mo-4-hydroxy-6-methyl-1-1,3,3a, 7-tetraazainden, 4-Amino-6-methyl-1,3,3a,7-tetraazainden, 2-Imidazolidinthion, Ethylenthioharnstoff, 5-Carboxy-6-hydroxy-4-methyl-2-methylthio-1,3,3a,7-tetraazainden, 4-Hydroxy-2-methylthio-1,3,3a,7-tetraazainden oder 5-(3-Ethyl-2-benzothiazolinyliden)-1-methoxy-carbonyl-methyl-3-phenyl-2-thiohydantoin.
11. Photographisches Element, das eine Emulsion nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 10 aufweist.
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