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Hazardous Metal-Free Color Pigments

EPA Contract Number: 68D98163
Title: Hazardous Metal-Free Color Pigments
Investigators: Routkevitch, Dimitri
Small Business: Nanomaterials Research Corporation
EPA Contact: Manager, SBIR Program
Phase: II
Project Period: September 1, 1998 through September 1, 2000
Project Amount: $225,000
RFA: Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) - Phase II (1997)
Research Category: Pollution Prevention/Sustainable Development , SBIR - Pollution Prevention

Description:

Inorganic color pigments based on hazardous metals such as chromium, mercury, cobalt, lead, etc., account for over 95% of the United States and world wide pigments consumption. Color pigments are commonly used by numerous industries and in various consumer products. It is estimated that they are one of the largest vehicles of hazardous metal-based chemicals commerce. A technology that can provide cost-effective, nonpolluting alternative to pigments with nonhazardous formulation while maintaining color performance would make a major impact in preventing pollution. The feasibility study successfully demonstrated that precision nanolaminated materials with tailored optical properties have a strong potential for application as specialty high performance pigments and colored coatings. Based on the success of Phase I, the Phase II effort will optimize and scale up the technology and produce hazardous metal-free color pigment and coatings.

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small business, SBIR, pollution prevention, engineering, chemistry, EPA. , Toxics, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, Sustainable Industry/Business, Waste, RFA, Technology for Sustainable Environment, Sustainable Environment, HAPS, Hazardous Waste, cleaner production/pollution prevention, Contaminant Candidate List, Hazardous, 33/50, pollution prevention, clean technology, pollution prevention design, chromium & chromium compounds, cleaner production, metal free, alternatives to pigment, engineering, pollution prevention assessment, metal-free, color pigments, Cobalt Compounds, lead & lead compounds, mercury & mercury compounds, coatings, Lead Compounds, mercury, hazardous metals, metal-free pigments, Chromium Compounds, cobalt

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SBIR Phase I:

Hazardous Metal-Free Color Pigments

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