Abstract: A method for producing a white powder, which includes forming on a surface of a base particle a titanium oxide film and a metallic silver film contiguously one upon another in this order, wherein the base particle includes a magnetic material, and wherein said step of forming on the surface of the base particle the titanium oxide film includes dispersing the base particle in a buffer solution and adding a titanium salt aqueous solution while agitating the dispersion.

Abstract: Optically coherent multilayered film-coated powder having weather resistance and a clear intended color, and processes for designing and producing the same are provided. A substance of the base particles providing an intended function and an intended color are selected; a spectral intensity curve and values in CIELAB color system of the intended color are measured; and with substances capable of being used as the coated layers and refractive indexes thereof being included in factors, substances and thicknesses of the coated layers and an order of formation of the layers are obtained that provide optically coherent multilayered film-coated powder having such values in CIELAB color system that minimizes a color difference and makes a hue ratio proximate to 1, by solving numerical solutions of the recurring formula for film multiple coherence.

Abstract: The invention provides white powder high in the lightness and a method for producing the same. The white powder has a titanium oxide film and a metallic silver film in this order on a surface of a base particle. The white powder is preferably 75 or more in the lightness L* and the base particle is preferably 70 or less in the lightness L*. Furthermore, the base particle is preferably a magnetic material and a film thickness of the titanium oxide film is preferably in the range of 5 to 500 nm.

Abstract: A titania film-coated powder comprising a base particle having provided thereon at least one titania film, wherein the base particle is coated with the titania film by suspending the base particle in a buffer solution having a pH of from 7.0 to 12.0 to obtain a suspension, and adding a hydrogen peroxide-ammonia mixture solution containing peroxotitanic acid to the suspension to thereby regulate a titania deposition reaction induced by decomposition of the peroxotitanic acid in the suspension.

Abstract: A genuine/counterfeit discrimination method, comprising identifying a combination of at least two of an electric field pattern, a magnetic pattern, an electron beam responsive pattern, and reflection or absorption patterns of visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared light using an electric field, a magnetic field, an electron beam, visible light, ultraviolet light, or infrared light. A genuine/counterfeit discrimination object, wherein a combination of at least two of an electric field pattern, a magnetic pattern, an electron beam responsive pattern, and reflection or absorption patterns of visible light, ultraviolet light, and infrared light can be identified therein using an electric field, a magnetic field, an electron beam, visible light, ultraviolet light, or infrared light.

Abstract: optically coherent multilayered film-coated powder having weather resistance and a clear intended color, and processes for designing and producing the same are provided. A substance of the base particles providing an intended function and an intended color are selected; a spectral intensity curve and values in CIELAB color system of the intended color are measured; and with substances capable of being used as the coated layers and refractive indexes thereof being included in factors, substances and thicknesses of the coated layers and an order of formation of the layers are obtained that provide optically coherent multilayered film-coated powder having such values in CIELAB color system that minimizes a color difference and makes a hue ratio proximate to 1, by solving numerical solutions of the recurring formula for film multiple coherence.

Abstract: Provided are film-coated powders, coating compositions and coated materials that give off vivid and deep colors. The film-coated powders have a coating film on the surface of substrate particles, and has spectrophotometric characteristic in that, when the ratio of the length at 400 nm between 380 and 780 nm on measuring the reflection spectrum from the vertical reflection light of the film-coated powder (wavelength definition width L) to the height of the reflectance 100% in the vertical axis (reflectance definition width R), L/R is 5/2, then the ratio of the peak height (H) to the half-value width (W), H/W is at least 1.

Abstract: A consolidated material of coated powders obtained by a method which comprises forming a molding by mutually bonding powder particles having a given property and in which the powder particles can be made to have a desired arrangement or can be arranged in positions giving such a predetermined distance that desired properties are obtainable. The present invention shows a process for producing a consolidated material of coated powders which are mutually consolidated, comprising adhering either powders each comprising a base particle having thereon a coating film having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 20 ?m or powders each comprising base particles each having thereon plural coating films having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 5 ?m per film in which at least any adjacent coating films are different in kind, at the coating film or by an adhesive.

Abstract: A consolidated material of coated powders obtained by a method which comprises forming a molding by mutually bonding powder particles having a given property and in which the powder particles can be made to have a desired arrangement or can be arranged in positions giving such a predetermined distance that desired properties are obtainable. The present invention shows a process for producing a consolidated material of coated powders which are mutually consolidated, comprising adhering either powders each comprising a base particle having thereon a coating film having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 20 ?m or powders each comprising base particles each having thereon plural coating films having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 5 ?m per film in which at least any adjacent coating films are different in kind, at the coating film or by an adhesive.

Abstract: A titania film-coated powder comprising a base particle having provided thereon at least one titania film, wherein the base particle is coated with the titania film by suspending the base particle in a buffer solution having a pH of from 7.0 to 12.0 to obtain a suspension, and adding a hydrogen peroxide-ammonia mixture solution containing peroxotitanic acid to the suspension to thereby regulate a titania deposition reaction induced by decomposition of the peroxotitanic acid in the suspension.

Abstract: A white powder characterized by comprising base particles having on the surface thereof at least one coating film comprising a crystallized-particle aggregate which is capable of imparting a white color based on the scattering reflection of light and which comprises crystallized particles and has voids among the crystallized particles; a white powder characterized in that it comprises base particles having on the surface thereof at least one coating film comprising a crystallized-particle aggregate which comprises crystallized particles and has voids among the crystallized particles, and that a white color is imparted thereto based on the scattering reflection of light occurring between the surface of the crystallized particles and the voids; and processes for producing these.

Abstract: A fluorescent or luminous composition, comprising a multilayered film-coated powder having at least two coating films on a base particle, and a fluorescent or luminous substance; the composition, wherein at least one layer of the coating films contains the fluorescent or luminous substance; a genuine/counterfeit discrimination object, in which the fluorescent or luminous composition; and a genuine/counterfeit discrimination method, comprising recognizing fluorescence or luminescence by irradiating, with a light, the genuine/counterfeit discrimination object.

Abstract: A consolidated material of coated powders obtained by a method which comprises forming a molding by mutually bonding powder particles having a given property and in which the powder particles can be made to have a desired arrangement or can be arranged in positions giving such a predetermined distance that desired properties are obtainable. The present invention shows a process for producing a consolidated material of coated powders which are mutually consolidated, comprising adhering either powders each comprising a base particle having thereon a coating film having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 20 &mgr;m or powders each comprising base particles each having thereon plural coating films having a uniform thickness of 0.01 to 5 &mgr;m per film in which at least any adjacent coating films are different in kind, at the coating film or by an adhesive.

Abstract: Additive pigments having a box-shape spectral distribution are provided. These pigments are characterized in that they are pigment powders which respectively have a high reflectance in the regions corresponding to the three primary colors of light, and comprise three pigments respectively having the three primary colors of light (red, green, and blue), and that when these pigments of the three colors are mixed together, each pigment is subjected to additive color mixing.

Abstract: A magnetic fluid and a process for producing the same are provided. The magnetic fluid is an excellent fluid which mightily and precisely actuates by the action of an external magnetic field so that its viscosity can be significantly increased and be easily and precisely controlled by regulating the external magnetic field applied thereto. The magnetic fluid is also excellent in the unsusceptibility to oxidation and dispersibility of the particles and has a sufficiently wide viscosity range.

Abstract: A highly functional film-coated powder which is produced without using the method based on the hydrolysis of a metal alkoxide and without using a metal alkoxide, which is an expensive compound, or a highly flammable organic solvent and which therefore can be obtained at a low overall product cost without necessitating explosion-proof facilities in the production equipment and while attaining easy temperature and humidity regulation; and a process for producing the same. The film-coated powder comprises a base particle having films on the surface thereof, wherein at least one of the films is formed by reaction of a metal salt in an aqueous solvent having a constant pH. By the technique, the surface of base particle can be evenly coated with a solid phase film while inhibiting particle aggregation without precipitating an independent solid phase in the liquid phase.

Abstract: A colorant composition capable of giving a coating film excellent in heat resistance and weather resistance which not only can have a single clear color, such as, blue, green, yellow, or the like, and be used for forgery prevention based on discrimination by means other than visible light rays, but also does not suffer color fading even at a high temperature of 350° C. to 600° C. The colorant composition comprises at least a powder comprising a base particle coated with a multilayered film comprising layers differing from each other in refractive index to make the base particle have an interference color, wherein the powder is dispersed in a dispersion medium.

Abstract: A rheological fluid of a bright color which has excellent light resistance and weather resistance, is stable even when used in a high-temperature environment, can be stored over long, and mightily and precisely actuates in response to an electric field or a magnetic field or to both. The rheological fluid comprises a medium in which a film-coated powder comprising a base particle having thereon a coating layer(s) is dispersed.

Abstract: A powder comprising a base particle which has been colored desirably and vividly and having a high light transmittance in the visible region. The powder is a multilayer-coated powder comprising a base particle having thereon a multilayered film comprising at least one thin layer comprising a metal sulfide, a metal fluoride, a metal carbonate or a metal phosphate. This multilayered film reflects or absorbs the light having a specific wavelength according to the thickness thereof, the sequence of layer superposition, etc.

Abstract: In producing a multilayer-coated powder by coating the surface of a base powder of a metal, metal oxide, etc. with two or more layers of a metal oxide or the like, the films of a metal oxide or the like are formed through decomposition, etc. from a metal salt as an inexpensive material. This is attained by making the powder particles not to be attacked by acids, etc. when the metal salt decomposition or the like, which yields an acid, etc., is conducted. The multilayer-coated powder is characterized in that the multilayered film comprises at least one layer consisting of a metal hydroxide or metal oxide film formed by the hydrolysis of a metal alkoxide and, as a layer disposed on the outer side of that layer, a coating film consisting of a metal hydroxide or metal oxide film formed by a reaction, e.g., neutralization or pyrolysis, of a metal salt. Upon heating, the metal hydroxide or metal oxide film formed by the hydrolysis of a metal alkoxide becomes a dense metal oxide film.