Marzia Guerrini , Lisa Rita Magnaghi , Martina Fracchia , Maria Pia Riccardi , Gabriele Pigoni , Gianfranco Debbi , Maddalena Patrini , Raffaela Biesuz , Serena Chiara Tarantino , Umberto Anselmi Tamburini , Paolo Ghigna
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Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive optimization strategy for the synthesis of new black ceramic pigments with low cobalt content while maintaining a single-phase spinel structure. The aim is to achieve comparable hues to those of an industrial benchmark containing five transition metals while minimizing the environmental impact. Exploring all possible compositions deriving from a five–component system (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Ni), through traditional methods would be extremely time consuming to guarantee an efficient sampling, requiring high experimental efforts. Hence, to identify the best black compositions, we employed a chemometric approach, the Design of Experiments, aiming to investigate the compositional domain derived by varying the metals stoichiometry within fixed boundaries to identify optimal pigment compositions. The resulting pigments (comprising Cr, Fe and Co), despite the lower cobalt content, exhibited optimal colorimetric properties comparable to the standard benchmark, with experimental ΔE values comparable to the ones predicted by the model. In particular, the pure spinels Cr1.05Fe1.05Co0.9O4 and Cr1.2Fe1.05Co0.75O4 displayed low lightness and chroma (L∗ = 2.4; C∗ = 5 and L∗ = 1.12; C∗ = 1.1, respectively), providing deep and dark black tonality. These compositions exhibit promising colorimetric performance and chemical stability, offering potential benefits for industrial applications.
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Ceramics International covers the science of advanced ceramic materials. The journal encourages contributions that demonstrate how an understanding of the basic chemical and physical phenomena may direct materials design and stimulate ideas for new or improved processing techniques, in order to obtain materials with desired structural features and properties.
Ceramics International covers oxide and non-oxide ceramics, functional glasses, glass ceramics, amorphous inorganic non-metallic materials (and their combinations with metal and organic materials), in the form of particulates, dense or porous bodies, thin/thick films and laminated, graded and composite structures. Process related topics such as ceramic-ceramic joints or joining ceramics with dissimilar materials, as well as surface finishing and conditioning are also covered. Besides traditional processing techniques, manufacturing routes of interest include innovative procedures benefiting from externally applied stresses, electromagnetic fields and energetic beams, as well as top-down and self-assembly nanotechnology approaches. In addition, the journal welcomes submissions on bio-inspired and bio-enabled materials designs, experimentally validated multi scale modelling and simulation for materials design, and the use of the most advanced chemical and physical characterization techniques of structure, properties and behaviour.
Technologically relevant low-dimensional systems are a particular focus of Ceramics International. These include 0, 1 and 2-D nanomaterials (also covering CNTs, graphene and related materials, and diamond-like carbons), their nanocomposites, as well as nano-hybrids and hierarchical multifunctional nanostructures that might integrate molecular, biological and electronic components.