Patent ID: 8404796

Claim:
A seamless intermediate transfer belt comprising a polycarbonate, wherein the polycarbonate is an A-B diblock copolymer comprising a bisphenol A polycarbonate segment block (A) and a phthalic acid containing segment block (B) terminal capable of providing protection against amine species contaminants, selected from the group consisting of Formula (I) and Formula (II) below: wherein z represents the number of bisphenol A repeating units in block A of from about 9 to about 18, y is number of repeating phthalic acid block B of from about 1 to about 2, and n is the degree of polymerization between about 20 and about 90 for the copolymer having a weight average molecular weight between about 100,000 and about 250,000, and mixtures thereof.