The invention provides a hydrophilic member and a support for a planographic
printing plate with a hydrophilic surface having hydrophilic graft chains and a
cross-linked structure on a substrate surface formed by hydrolysis of an alkoxide
of a metal selected from Si, Ti, Zr, and Al and condensation polymerization and
it is characteristic that the hydrophilic surface contains a hydrophilic graft
polymer, which is a copolymer of a macromer having hydrophilic functional groups
and a structural unit having a silane coupling group.
Further, the invention provides a hydrophilic graft polymer that is copolymer
of macromers having hydrophilic functional groups and structural units having silane
coupling groups.