Friday, 3 July 2015

color - How to choose a colorant for a given substrate?


I know there are volumes of International Colour Index (homepage, wiki, paper), but I can't really extract from there for example what red colorants are compatible with both silk and polyester, etc.


This paper mentions that such compatibility can be estimated using numerical methods:



"Metropolis Monte Carlo methods have been used to determine the surface interaction or binding energy for dyes to cellulose." [ref]




  1. Is there a comprehensive database for this?

  2. Is there an analytical way to determine/predict/estimate such compatibility?





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