Fixing device and image forming apparatus

Abstract

A fixing device includes a heating member that has a base material and a surface layer provided on the base material, a pressurizing member that comes into contact with the heating member and applies pressure to the heating member, and a peeling claw that is provided on a downstream side of the heating member in a rotation direction of the heating member with respect to a contact portion between the heating member and the pressurizing member, and peels a recording medium that is passed through the contact portion between the heating member and the pressurizing member from the heating member by coming into contact with the heating member, in which the surface layer of the heating member is a layer having a T unit represented by a formula: [R1SiO3/2]m (in the formula, R1 represents an organic group, and m represents an integer of 2 or more), and contains inorganic particles having an average particle diameter of 7.0 μm or less.

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