“…Among the properties of interest are color properties and, among these, lightfastness is a fundamental one. In contrast to the latter, the term photochromism implies the reversibility of color change and has been observed for a variety of inorganic compounds (e.g., V 2 O 5 [1], MoO 3 [2], WO 3 [3,4], perovskites [5e7], PbMoO 4 [8], photochromic glasses [9,10]). Changes in optical properties due to illumination are desired for materials that find application in optical information storage [11,12], but the opposite is true in the case of pigments.…”