The manufacture of high performance pigments has become a global industry, with a growth rate well in advance of the more classical types of pigments. The revised and expanded second edition of this volume offers both producers and users of these materials the opportunity to review and update their understanding of the latest technologies and market issues affecting both organic and inorganic high performance pigments. Updates in this edition include an overview of the current market for high performance pigments, synthesis, reaction mechanisms, physical and chemical properties, applications, regulatory affairs, toxicology, and ecotoxicology.

From the Preface: “High performance pigments are an important segment of the diverse and rich field of color and visual effects 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 to visible and ultraviolet radiation (lightfastness), but heat stability and chemical resistance are also critical attributes...”

Target Audience: Chemists, physicists, engineers, applications specialists, materials scientists, academics, and students interested in high performance pigments and their various end use applications.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Inorganic High Performance Pigments

Bismuth Vanadates

Cadmium Pigments

Cerium Pigments

Complex Inorganic Color Pigments: An Overview

Titanate Pigments: Colored Rutile, Priderite, and Pseudobrookite Structured Pigments

Special Effect Pigments

Crystal Design of High Performance Pigments

The Global Market for Organic High Performance Pigments

Benzimidazolone Pigments and Related Structures

Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) Pigments

Dioxazine Violet Pigments

Disazocondensation Pigments

Isoindoline Pigments

Isoindolinone Pigments

Perylene Pigments

Phthalocyanines — High Performance Pigments and Their Applications

Quinacridone Pigments

Quinophthalone Pigments

Imidazolone-Annellated Triphendioxazine Pigments

Chemical and Physical Characterization of High Performance Organic Pigments

Regulatory Affairs for High Performance Pigments: North America

Regulatory and Legislative Aspects of Relevance to High Performance Pigments: Europe

Infrared Reflecting Complex Inorganic Colored Pigments

Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Issues with High Performance Pigments

Appendix

Index