The present invention relates to transparent, electrically semiconducting interference pigments having high color strength, and in particular to flake-form interference pigments which comprise an oxygen-deficient layer of TiO.sub.2-x, to a process for the preparation of such pigments, and to the use of the pigments prepared in this way.

The present invention relates to a pigment mixture based on at least two components A and B, where component A is a mixture of flake-form and spherical substrates which is covered with one or more inorganic layers and/or organic layers,
and component B comprises crystalline or amorphous particles selected from the group of the metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal oxyhalides, Prussian Blue or mixtures thereof,
and to the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses, in cosmetic formulations, as tracer, as filler and for the preparation of pigment preparations and dry preparations.

Temperature-stable effect pigments based on multicoated flake-form substrates, and the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, plastics and in particular in glazes, enamels, ceramic or glass-like materials.

The present invention relates to a pigment mixture based on at least two components A and B, where component A is a mixture of flake-form and spherical substrates which is covered with one or more inorganic layers and/or organic layers, and component B comprises crystalline or amorphous particles selected from the group of the metal oxides, metal hydroxides, metal oxy-halides, Prussian Blue or mixtures thereof,

and to the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, security printing inks, plastics, ceramic materials, glasses, in cosmetic formulations, as tracer, as filler and for the preparation of pigment preparations and dry preparations.

Frits or frit mixtures with pearlescent pigments for materials, such as ceramic glazes, which are stable above 1000 C.

Frits or frit mixtures with pearlescent pigments for materials, such as ceramic glazes, which are stable above 1000 C.

Weather stable pearlescent pigment having a basic pearlescent with an interference color which comprises a transparent platelet-shaped substrate and at least one metal oxide layer with a refractive index >1.8 and on top of this basic pearlescent pigment a weather stabilizing top coating comprising at least one metal oxide and an organofunctional surface modification, wherein a) for a basic pearlescent pigment with silvery interference color the weather stabilizing top coating consists of a first metal oxide of a rare earth metal M1 from the group consisting of Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and mixtures thereof, or b) for a basic pearlescent pigment with a colored interference color or a silvery interference color the weather stabilizing top coating comprises a first metal oxide of a rare earth metal M1 from the group consisting of Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and mixtures thereof, and a second metal oxide from a second metal M2 from the group consisting of Si, Al, Zn, Mg, Zr, Sn and mixtures or combinations thereof, and in each case a) or b) the organofunctional surface modification comprises organofunctional silanes or water-based pre-condensated organofunctional silanes.

Temperature-stable effect pigments based on multicoated flake-form substrates, and the use thereof in paints, coatings, printing inks, plastics and in particular in glazes, enamels, ceramic or glass-like materials.

Weather stable pearlescent pigment having a basic pearlescent with an interference color which comprises a transparent platelet-shaped substrate and at least one metal oxide layer with a refractive index >1.8 and on top of this basic pearlescent pigment a weather stabilizing top coating comprising at least one metal oxide and an organofunctional surface modification, wherein a) for a basic pearlescent pigment with silvery interference color the weather stabilizing top coating consists of a first metal oxide of a rare earth metal M1 from the group consisting of Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and mixtures thereof, or b) for a basic pearlescent pigment with a colored interference color or a silvery interference color the weather stabilizing top coating comprises a first metal oxide of a rare earth metal M1 from the group consisting of Y, La, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu and mixtures thereof, and a second metal oxide from a second metal M2 from the group consisting of Si, Al, Zn, Mg, Zr, Sn and mixtures or combinations thereof, and in each case a) or b) the organofunctional surface modification comprises organofunctional silanes or water-based pre-condensated organofunctional silanes.