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Bismuth Vanadates

Hartmut Endriss 2.1 Introduction Bismuth vanadate pigments are a relatively new pigment class that has gained steadily in importance over the last two decades. The pigments exhibit brilliant greenish-yellow to reddish-yellow shades, with compositions ranging from BiVO4 (CAS No. 14059-33-7, EINECS No. 237-898-0) to the mixed pigment 4BiVO4 x 3Bi2MoO6. They appear in the Colour […]

Challenges for the Future

This leads us to consider challenges for new high performance pigments, which can be designated as Three Essential Es: Effectiveness = Technical performance Economy = Benefits for the customer Ecology = Environmental and toxicological safety Better effectiveness could include higher tinting strength, greater ease of disper­sion, better fineness of grind, higher saturation, and so on. […]

New Candidates on the Catwalk of Color

Bearing in mind the limitation in the color of inorganic pigments, one has to be surprised at the numbers of new compounds introduced with good pigment per­formance. More and more, specialized physical effects appear to dominate over variation in chemical composition. In Table 1.1, for example, we must point out that mica-based effect pigments, being […]

Survey of Inorganic Pigments

When we consider a short survey of today’s major inorganic pigments, we are faced with the realization that the three major pigment families: titanium dioxide, carbon black, and iron oxides, accounting for more than 90% of the worldwide tonnage, as shown in Table 1.1, are all outside of our subject matter. They are well known […]

Introduction to Inorganic High Performance Pigments

Gunter Buxbaum 1.1 Introduction In 2005 the world production of inorganic pigments was approximately 6 million tonnes, representing a value of about $14 billions. For high performance pigment applications the market in paints and coatings is of special interest and was esti­mated at 2.4 million tonnes representing a value of about $5.6 billions. Some years […]

High Performance Pigments

High performance pigments are an important segment of the diverse and rich field of color and visual effect technology. The sub-category of pigments referred to as “high performance” generally denotes members of the larger body of pig­ments, both organic and inorganic, that exhibit enhanced durability. The most salient durability feature is generally regarded as resistance […]