Phycocyanin pigment composition
AssigneeDIC Corporation
InventorsSeiji Funakura, Takashi Shibano, Hiroshi Sekikawa
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Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide a phycocyanin pigment composition insoluble in water and provide food, cosmetics, a coating material or a printing marker for pharmaceuticals or agricultural chemicals, a stationery product, a writing tool, a printing ink, an inkjet ink, a metal ink, a paint, a plastic coloring agent, a color toner, a fluorescent labeling agent, a fluorescent probe, or a chemical sensor, each containing the pigment composition. It was found that the phycocyanin pigment composition containing phycocyanin and a metal or a metal compound was insoluble in water, and thus the present invention was accomplished.
Claims10
A water-insoluble pigment composition comprising:
- phycocyanin;
- and
- a metal or a metal compound,
- wherein a composition mass ratio of the phycocyanin to the metal or the metal compound is the phycocyanin:
- the metal or the metal compound=0.1:99.9 to 90:10.
A water-insoluble pigment composition comprising:
- phycocyanin;
- and
- a metal or a metal compound,
- wherein the metal compound is a metal hydroxide or a metal oxide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.