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. 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. The book includes chapters on European and North American regulatory and legislative issues as well.

From the Preface: “...Unlike the original ‘Pigment Handbook’, which presented a uniform pattern of information on each pigment class identified, each author in this volume has been encouraged to produce a manuscript truly reflective of their own personality, motivation and insight...Throughout each chapter, pigments are identified according to the system set forth by the Colour Index International, which is produced by the Society of Dyers and Colourists in Bradford, England...”

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 with New Applications

Quinacridone Pigments

Quinophthalone Pigments

Thiazines, Oxazines and Other Novel High-Performance 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

Toxicology and Ecotoxicology Issues with High Performance Pigments

Index