Revealing Explanation on Organic Dyes: A Review
Maitri Kagathara, Dipika J. Dalal, Hitesh Solanki · International Journal of Research in Advent Technology · 2020
Dye is a substance which is used to colour various materials such as textiles, leather, and paper which is not altered with factors such as heat, light, washing, or any other exposure.However, the concept of dyes is completely different from the concept of pigments.Pigments in a nutshell can be defined as a material diffused in liquid forming a paint or ink.Dyes contain organic compound while pigments contain inorganic compound.Natural dyes have the privilege of causing minimal impact on environment, being renewable, sustainable, and safe.The paper here by aims to pile up the particulars of organic dyes, its history, types, sources, preparations and its medicinal use as well as pigments from which we get dyes.It further sheds some light on the comparison of natural dyes and synthetic dyes, concluding with unignorable advantages and disadvantages.