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Sounds like a worthwhile project.  Let me know if I could do anything to help.  
My company manufactures complex inorganic pigments, ie various transition metal 
oxide solid solutions.  Mostly CrSbTi and NiSbTi rutiles, CoAl and CrCoAl 
spinels, and other related compounds.