All paint articles
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ResearchPaint in buildings a huge reservoir of PFAS waiting to enter the environment
Decades worth of chemicals stored in paints that have been applied to homes and businesses
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BusinessAkzoNobel rejected attempts to cut in on Axalta merger
€13 billion counter-offer by Nippon Paints and Sherwin-Williams ‘undervalues’ the company
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NewsPaint manufacturers still putting consumers at risk in Mexico with sale of toxic lead paints
Over half of paints sold in the country contain unsafe levels of lead pigments, with some reaching up to 29% lead
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BusinessBASF sells coatings business to Carlyle in €7.7 billion deal
Deal covers automotive and surface treatment businesses and follows earlier sale of decorative paints
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ResearchChemists use AI to uncover pigments used on Berlin Wall murals
Researchers hope work will help to preserve this art
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ResearchChemistry tools reveal surprise lead layer under a Rembrandt masterpiece
X-ray imaging uncovers a surprising lead substance beneath The Night Watch, likely used to safeguard the famous painting from moisture
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ResearchChemists discover new lead(II) oxide pigments in the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper
Findings provide new insight into paints used by Leonardo da Vinci
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OpinionLetters: June 2022
Readers share poems and memories, and report a textbook theft by the man who stole Einstein’s brain
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ResearchPlasmonic catalyst smashes record for reducing vital chemical feedstock
Chalcogenide catalyses reduction of nitroaromatics used in everything from paints, plastics and pharmaceuticals
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ResearchThe whitest white paint ever is also the coolest
New paint formulation that reflects up to 98.1% of sunlight can rival the cooling power of air conditioners
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BusinessFatal explosion at US paint and polymers plant
One dead and nine others injured as building partially collapsed after explosion and fire
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Research‘Forgotten’ Egyptian blue pigment found in Raphael fresco
Scientists speculate that knowledge of making the ‘first synthetic pigment’ wasn’t quite as lost as some have supposed
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ResearchLuxury blue paint pigment catalyses its own ‘disease’
Discovery could help preserve Renaissance masterpieces
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ResearchKeep The Scream dry to preserve its pigments, chemical analysis suggests
Moisture – not light – hastens the degradation of yellow cadmium colours in Edvard Munch’s 1910 painting
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ResearchPorous hydrogel cleans dirt and grime from Jackson Pollock masterpieces
Twin-chain polymer gel can safely removes grime from contemporary artworks
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PodcastCobalt oxide
From ancient Egyptian pottery to distinctive blue bottles, cobalt oxide has been providing ‘chemically and artistically perfect’ pigments for centuries
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FeatureChromium: Lust for colour
Van Gogh’s yellow sunflowers owe a debt to Louis Vaquelin, the chemist who discovered the element chromium
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ResearchDawn of the atomic age helps carbon dating detect forged art
Spike in radiocarbon from nuclear bomb tests harnessed to detect fakes
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NewsConservators turn to iPads to follow the formation of oil paintings’ ‘art acne’
Researchers have developed at app to address a chemistry problem plaguing the art world
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BusinessUS government sued for delaying dichloromethane paint stripper ban
Environmental Protection Agency advances long-awaited ban on consumer products, but allows commercial use to continue