Early Pigments to Designer Paints

Paints and Pigments

Paints have been manufactured since prehistoric times, but until recently they were highly expensive and thus were mainly used for artwork. It is only since the nineteenth century that houses have commonly been painted. Today paints are used for colouring and protecting many surfaces, including houses, cars, road markings and underground storage vessels. Each of these different applications req...

Optical Characterization and Modeling of Black Pigments Used in Thickness Sensitive Solar Selective Absorbing Paints

 The performance of black pigments used in thickness sensitive solar selective absorbing paints for solar thermal collectors depend on the optical properties of the pigments. Knowledge of the intrinsic optical properties of most paint pigments is very limited. Pellets made from either FeMnCuOx or black carbon dispersed in KBr matrix have been used to determine the effective optical coefficient...

Influence of pigments and protein aging on protein identification in historically representative casein-based paints using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

A systematic study on the influence of pigments and sample aging on casein identification was performed on 30 reconstructed paints. The protein in all the paints was extracted into solution for analysis. The amount of protein that can be retrieved for solution-based analysis in each of the reconstructed paints was studied with a well-developed NanoOrange method before and after artificial aging...

How a painter paints

Drawing from the seminal definition of the principles of abstract art posed by Wassily Kandinsky in the early years of the twentieth century, and contextualizing that knowledge in contemporary cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the study attempts to arrive at an understanding of how cognitive structure emerges in pragmatic self-observation during the artistic process. Through a...

Paints and Coatings