New Glass-Ceramic Inclusion Pigment

The traditional ceramic industry has recently demonstrated increased interest in obtaining inclusion pigments to stabilise unstable chromophores, such as hematite or cadmium sulfoselenide, at firing temperature and in studying the actions of molten glasses. This work focuses on a new method for synthesising hematite-zircon inclusion pigments from an unconventional mixture of precursors. For this purpose, a glassy composition that belongs to the LiO2-ZrO2-SiO2 system and that crystallises into zircon during the calcination step has been chosen.