High Performance Inorganic Pigments: Complex Inorganic Colored Pigments

摘要

Color is as basic to people as emotions. When we are sad we feel blue, when we're sick we look green and when we're mad we are red under the collar. In fact, our use of color predates even modern humans. Scientists have discovered that humanities ancestors dispersed pigments with an abalone shell and quartz rock into natural resins to produce paints for body adornment and cave paintings- the first DIY home improvement projects. Those earliest pigments were natural ochres. In the ongoing centuries we have expanded our palette of pigments to include synthetic pigments and organic chemistry based pigments. A special branch of this pigmentation are the Complex Inorganic Color Pigments (CICP)s. Complex Inorganic Color Pigments provide high- performance color for the most demanding applications for plastics and polymers. CICPs can stand up to the most challenging and aggressive processing and applications. Recent advances have found that these pigments have properties that give them the ability to address regulatory requirements and give not only color, but also functional properties.