Inorganic colors and related nanotechnology

An inorganic pigment comprising nanopowders having a domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise at least one element selected from aluminum, cerium, titanium, zinc, and zirconium and at least one additional element selected from actinium, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cesium, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, and yttrium;

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• wherein the nanofillers exhibits transparency to a visible wavelength of light that differs by more than 20% as compared with transparency to the visible wavelength of light exhibited by fillers of similar composition with fillers having a domain size of at least one micron.

An inorganic pigment comprising nanopowders with domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise zinc and at least one additional element selected from actinium, arsenic, antimony, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cerium, cesium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, and zirconium;

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• wherein the nanofillers exhibits transparency to a visible wavelength of light that differs by more than 20% as compared with transparency to the visible wavelength of light exhibited by fillers of similar composition with fillers having a domain size of at least one micron.

An inorganic pigment comprising nanopowders having a domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise at least one element selected from antimony, cobalt, manganese, and tungsten and at least one additional element selected from actinium, aluminum, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cerium, cesium, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, titanium, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium, and

• wherein the nanofillers exhibits transparency to a visible wavelength of light that differs by more than 20% as compared with transparency to the visible wavelength of light exhibited by fillers of similar composition with fillers having a domain size of at least one micron.

An inorganic pigment comprising nanopowders having a domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise at least one element selected from cerium, titanium, and zinc and at least one additional element selected from actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cesium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, and zirconium, and

• wherein the nanofillers exhibits transparency to a visible wavelength of light that differs by more than 20% as compared with transparency to the visible wavelength of light exhibited by fillers of similar composition with fillers having a domain size of at least one micron.

An inorganic pigment comprising nanopowders having a domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise at least one element selected from aluminum, calcium, cerium, titanium, yttrium, and zinc and at least one additional element selected from actinium, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, cesium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, and zirconium, and

• wherein the nanofillers exhibits transparency to a visible wavelength of light that differs by more than 20% as compared with transparency to the visible wavelength of light exhibited by fillers of similar composition with fillers having a domain size of at least one micron.

An inorganic pigment nanofiller comprising nanopowders having a domain size less than 100 nanometers, wherein the nanopowders comprise at least one element selected from aluminum and titanium and at least one additional element selected from actinium, aluminum, antimony, arsenic, barium, bismuth, cadmium, calcium, cerium, cesium, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, gallium, gold, hafnium, antimony, boron, germanium, indium, nitrogen, phosphorus, selenium, sulfur, tellurium, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lithium, magnesium, manganese, mendelevium, mercury, molybdenum, neodymium, neptunium, nickel, niobium, osmium, palladium, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, promethium, protactinium, rhenium, rubidium, scandium, silver, sodium, strontium, tantalum, terbium, thallium, thorium, tin, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc, and zirconium.