Comparison of Mechanical and Metallurgical Properties of Conventional Anodized Layers with Colored Anodized Layers by Nano Metallic Pigments Anodizing of aluminum in sulfuric acid produce anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) with a regular nano-porous structure. Nano-pores are cylindrical and perpendicular to the aluminum substrate. Electrocoloring (electrolytic coloring) precipitate nano-metallic particles in the bottom of the regular nano-pores leading to induce electrolytic colors on the treated aluminum surface, but these colors differ from brown to black. modification of nano-porous anodic aluminum oxides induces light interference leading to various tones of colors (named Interference colors) after electrolytic coloring process. Interference colors predicted to be as same as the electrolytic colors but with various interesting tones of colors. In this research, nano-morphology of an anodic aluminum oxide was modified via two procedures in sulfuric and phosphoric acid baths. The metallurgical changes after the modifications were evaluated and compared with unmodified conventional layer. Layer thickness, crystalline structure, surface topography and morphology, mechanical characteristics including elastic modulus and nano-hardness, corrosion behavior and electronic properties of the oxide layers were evaluated by metallography, low-angle X-Ray diffraction (LAXRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), nano-indentation (NHT), electrochemical Tafel polarization and mott-shottky analysis, respectively. From the overall view, the modification had some destructive effects on corrosion performance and mechanical properties of the anodized layers. Mott-Shottky analysis showed that the aluminum oxide layer was characterized as an n-type semiconductor and the modification increased its conductivity. The effects of the oxide modification on creating interference colors using the electrolytic coloring method were evaluated. The oxide layer modified in the sulfuric acid bath extended conventional electrolytic colors in the same tone. Conversely, different interference colors were obtained for the oxide layer modified in phosphoric acid bath. The electrochemical impedance spectroscopy was employed to examine the differences between the conventional electrolytic and interference colors. The results showed that the interference color anodized layer had a thinner barrier layer in comparison with conventional electrolytic anodized layer. In addition, interference colored layers had some problems with ordinary sealing techniques; only steam sealing was found to be effective for these layers. The modified layers were colored by electroless precipitation of Fe 2 hy;O 3 nano-particles and no interference