The present application relates to a colorant tablet comprising: a) at least one pigment; and b) at least one adjuvant. A pigment may be an organic pigment, and inorganic pigment, or combinations thereof. The pigment may be an insoluble pigment. An adjuvant may be a carbonate. The adjuvant may further comprise at least one acid. The colorant tablet may be at least partially dissolved in a solvent (including water) prior to adding to a formulation or directly into a formulation. The formulation may be a coating. A method of forming the colorant tablet is also disclosed.

The present disclosure is directed to simple, scalable methods of forming colloidal MXene dispersions in nonpolar organic solvents with long term stability.

Including droplet and powder which has a liquid repellent property with respect to the droplet and is attached to the surface of the droplet.

The present invention is directed to a process for the preparation of an aqueous suspension of self-binding pigmentary particles comprising the following stages: (a) forming one or more aqueous suspensions of at least one inorganic matter comprising calcium carbonate; (b) forming or obtaining one or more aqueous solutions or suspensions or emulsions of at least one binder; and (c) co-grinding the aqueous suspension or suspensions obtained in stage a) with the aqueous solutions or suspensions or emulsions obtained in stage b) in a mill so as to obtain an aqueous suspension of self-binding pigmentary particles.

The present invention relates to a method for the production of granules comprising surface-reacted calcium carbonate by a) providing surface-reacted calcium carbonate, b) saturating the surface-reacted calcium carbonate with one or more liquids; c) providing one or more binder; d) combining the liquid saturated surface-reacted calcium carbonate with the one or more binder under agitation in an agitation device; e) removing the liquid from the mixture of step d); as well as to the granules comprising surface-reacted calcium carbonate obtained by this method.

A carbon material granulated product contains a carbon black having a particle size D50, as determined by a laser diffraction/scattering method specified in ISO 13320, of 250 m or less, a carbon nanotube having a particle size D50, as determined by the laser diffraction/scattering method specified in ISO 13320, of 50 m or less, and a solvent-soluble polymer impregnated into the carbon black and the carbon nanotube. In the carbon material granulated product, the solvent-soluble polymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of ether polymers, vinyl polymers, amine polymers, cellulose polymers, and starch polymers, and the content of the solvent-soluble polymer is in a range from 1 part by mass to 15 parts by mass relative to a total content of the carbon black and the carbon nanotube taken as 100 parts by mass.

A method produces transparent ceramics having high transmittance and no bubble defects with uniform insertion loss over the entire inner surface thereof. The method comprising the steps of: obtaining a candidate composition containing a binder, optionally a dispersant, and optionally a plasticizer; dissolving the candidate composition in a solvent, then reducing a contained solvent volume to 0.1% by mass or less, and measuring a glass transition temperature; selecting a candidate composition having a glass transition temperature of 25 C. or more and 60 C. or less as an organic additive composition; preparing the organic additive composition containing the binder, optionally the dispersant, and the plasticizer, and having the composition obtained in the selecting step; pulverizing a raw material for sintering formed from metal oxide powder and the organic additive composition to obtain a pulverized mixture; granulating the pulverized mixture; sintering the granulated mixture to obtain a sintered body; and pressurizing the sintered body.

An object is to provide a production method that is a method for producing a spherical particle material by a melting method and that makes a melting spheroidization ratio higher than the conventional method. A production method for a spherical particle material of the present disclosure achieving the above object includes: a raw particle material preparation step of preparing a raw particle material composed of an inorganic material; and a spheroidization step of feeding the raw particle material into a high-temperature atmosphere to melt the raw particle material and then rapidly cooling the raw particle material to prepare a spherical particle material having a volume average particle diameter of 1 m or more and less than 10 m, and a powder compressibility evaluation FF value, by a powder rheometer, of the raw particle material is 2.0 or more.

In a zinc oxide powder, a BET specific surface area is equal to or more than 1.5 m.sup.2/g and less than 8 m.sup.2/g, an apparent specific volume by a loose packing method is equal to or more than 0.8 mL/g and equal to or less than 4.0 mL/g, and a value (the apparent specific volume by the loose packing method/an apparent specific volume by a tapping method) obtained by dividing the apparent specific volume (mL/g) by the loose packing method by the apparent specific volume (mL/g) by the tapping method, is equal to or more than 1.50 and equal to or less than 2.50.

A carbon material granulated product contains a carbon black having a particle size D.sub.50, as determined by a laser diffraction/scattering method specified in ISO 13320, of 250 m or less, a carbon nanotube having a particle size D.sub.50, as determined by the laser diffraction/scattering method specified in ISO 13320, of 50 m or less, and a solvent-soluble polymer impregnated into the carbon black and the carbon nanotube. In the carbon material granulated product, the solvent-soluble polymer is at least one selected from the group consisting of ether polymers, vinyl polymers, amine polymers, cellulose polymers, and starch polymers, and the content of the solvent-soluble polymer is in a range from 1 part by mass to 15 parts by mass relative to a total content of the carbon black and the carbon nanotube taken as 100 parts by mass.