Industrial Inorganic Pigments

Dr. Gunter Buxbaum, born 1943 studied chemistry at the Technical University of Berlin and finished his PhD-Thesis in 1971 in the field of solid state chemistry. In 1973 he joined the research department for magnetic iron oxide pigment of Bayer AG. He headed the R&D-department for iron oxides for 20 years after which he implemented modern IP-Management in the chemicals department. The Otto-Bayer-Award, about 50 patents and many articles in handbooks and journals were the output of his scientific work. He also lectures inorganic pigment chemistry. Dr. Gerhard Pfaff studied chemistry and obtained his Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry 1983 from the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena in Germany. His postgraduate research was in the field of solid-state chemistry and ceramic materials at the University of Jena. In 1991, he joined Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, as a product development manager in the R&D department of the pigments division. Since 1994, he has there been the head of product development for effect pigments. In 1997, he received his habilitation in the field of inorganic chemistry at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he now also lectures. His interests include synthesis, structural investigation and application behavior of effect pigments and materials with advanced optical and electrical properties.

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• 1 Introduction 11.1 General Aspects 11.2 General Chemical and Physical Properties 111.3 Color Properties 221.4 Stability Towards Light, Weather, Heat, and Chemicals 381.5 Behavior of Pigments in Binders 432 White Pigments 512.1 Titanium Dioxide 512.2 Zinc Sulfide Pigments 812.3 Zinc Oxide (Zinc White) 883 Colored Pigments 993.1 Oxides and Hydroxides 993.2 Cadmium Pigments 1213.3 Bismuth Pigments 1233.4 Chromate Pigments 1283.5 Ultramarine Pigments 1363.6 Iron Blue Pigments 1454 Black Pigments 1634.1 Physical Properties 1644.2 Chemical Properties 1674.3 Raw Materials 1684.4 Production Processes 1694.5 Testing and Analysis 1784.6 Transportation and Storage 1804.7 Uses 1814.8 Toxicology and Health Aspects 1905 Specialty Pigments 1955.1 Magnetic Pigments 1955.2 Anticorrosive Pigments 2075.3 Effect Pigments 2305.4 Transparent Pigments 2615.5 Luminescent pigments 269References 289Index 297