Shape of Aluminum paste

April 02, 2025

The ductile nature of the metal sused means that milling or crushing of spherical aluminum powder in the ball mill creates flakes with shape factors (flake thickness: flake diameter ) of 1:50 to 1:200.

Silver Dollar Shape: Using fine-grained spherical aluminum powder with extremely narrow particle size, after slow grinding process, we can get aluminum sheets with smooth surface, moderate diameter-thickness ratio, narrow particle size distribution, high sparkle and strong hiding power.

Snowflake and Scale Shape: They are made by grinding aluminum powder with coarser particle size.

Statistical particle thickness can vary depending on the product and the milling technology used, i.e. the various pigments are not monodisperse particles but heterodisperse systems with a more or less statistical distribution of particle sizes and thicknesses.

Particle size distribution in metallic pigments has a decisive influence on the optical properties of the applications. It is essential, therefore, to measure particle size distribution for quality control and in order to classify the pigments, the anisotropy of the flakes makes this in difficulty