Dallas, Texas, April 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The “Inorganic Pigment Market by Derivative (Titanium Dioxide, Iron Oxide, Carbon Black, Others), Application (Textiles, Printing Inks, Packaging, ...

Compounds with the apatite structure differ from most classes by the variety of their chemical compositions: to create such substances, most chemical elements of the Periodic System can be used, while ...

Paints are one of the oldest synthetic substances known to man, dating back to the prehistoric times where they were used to depict scenes on cave walls. Today, paints are used both to add color and ...

Oregon State University pigment researchers are using a rare mineral discovered in Norway more than a century ago as a road map for creating new yellows, oranges and reds that are vibrant, durable, ...

A chemistry researcher who made history a decade ago with the accidental discovery of the first new blue inorganic pigment in more than two centuries is again pushing forward the science of color. An ...

Lightning first struck Mas Subramanian over 15 years ago. When he and his graduate student Andrew Smith put a mixture of rather mundane powders into the lab oven at Oregon State University, the pair ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ...

Layered perovskites like titanium-added calcium manganese oxide ceramics have attracted attention as materials that can prevent solar heat absorption by reflecting near-infrared (NIR) radiation better ...

From the cave paintings of prehistoric times to the masterpieces of today, creating art with paint seems to be a fundamental urge in humans. The key to paint is the pigment, the substance that gives a ...

The efficacy of far-IR spectroscopic characterization of pigment materials has been shown for macro samples. 12-15 The far-IR microspectroscopy study of pigments, however, has been an untapped field ...

Schematic representation of thortveitite-like structure of Zn2-xNixV2O7 (top). Substitution of Ni for Zn produces yellow, orange and reddish hues as x value is varied (bottom). Zinc/Nickel atoms are ...