Sol-Gel Technologies for Glass Producers and Users

**Sol-Gel Techniques for Glass Producers and Users** provides technological information, descriptions and characterizations of prototypes, or products already on the market, and illustrates advantages and disadvantages of the sol-gel process in comparison to other methods. The first chapter entitled "Wet Chemical Technology" gives a summary of the basic principles of the sol-gel chemistry. The most promising applications are related to coatings. Chapter 2 describes the various "Wet Chemical Coating Technologies" from glass cleaning to many deposition and post-coating treatment techniques. These include patterning of coatings through direct or indirect techniques which have became very important and for which the sol-gel processing is particularly well adapted. Chapter 3 entitled "Bulk Glass Technologies" reports on the preparation of special glasses for different applications. Chapter 4 entitled "Coatings and Materials Properties" describes the properties of the different coatings and the sol-gel materials, fibers and powders. The chapter also includes a section dedicated to the characterization techniques especially applied to sol-gel coatings and products. Front Matter....Pages i-xx Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Basic Principles of Sol-Gel Chemistry....Pages 3-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Cleaning Glass Surfaces....Pages 19-34 Dip Coating Technique....Pages 37-48 Spin Coating Technique....Pages 49-55 Capillary Coating Technique....Pages 57-61 Flat-Spray Process for Optical Coatings on Cold Glass....Pages 63-67 The Pyrosol® Process....Pages 69-75 The Aerosol-Gel Process....Pages 77-81 Electrophoretic Coatings....Pages 83-88 Doctor Blade....Pages 89-92 Sintering and Patterning Using Laser Irradiation....Pages 95-100 Ablation of sol-gel coatings by excimer laser irradiation....Pages 101-105 Embossing....Pages 109-115 Screen Printing....Pages 117-122 Pad Printing....Pages 123-125 Ink-Jet Printing....Pages 127-130 Flexographic Printing....Pages 131-135 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Monolithic Silica Glass Cylinders for Optical Fiber....Pages 139-144 Grin Glasses....Pages 145-148 Porous Glasses....Pages 149-151 Front Matter....Pages 137-137 Biological Gel-Glasses....Pages 153-156 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Colored Coatings on Glass Based on Noble Metal Colloids....Pages 161-168 Transparent Conducting Oxide Coatings....Pages 169-174 Ion Conducting Coatings....Pages 175-178 Hydrophobic and Oleophobic Coatings....Pages 179-186 Hydrophilic Coating Materials....Pages 187-194 Interference Coatings....Pages 195-206 Ferroelectric Thin Films....Pages 207-216 Scratch Resistant Coatings....Pages 217-221 Coatings for High Temperature Use....Pages 223-236 Coatings for Increasing and Preserving the Bending Strength of Glass....Pages 237-242 Metallic Coatings on Dielectric Substrates....Pages 243-248 Photochromic Coatings....Pages 251-259 Electrochromic Coatings....Pages 261-269 Thermochromic Transition-Metal Oxides....Pages 271-276 Gasochromic Coatings....Pages 277-281 Photovoltaic Coatings....Pages 283-294 Photocatalytic TiO 2 Coatings....Pages 295-302 Electrooptical Coatings....Pages 303-306 Doped Sol-Gel Coatings....Pages 307-311 Front Matter....Pages 157-157 Optical Chemical Sensors....Pages 313-320 Thin-Film Optical Waveguides....Pages 321-326 Planar Waveguide Optical Amplifiers....Pages 327-331 Integrated Optical Circuits Fabrication....Pages 333-340 Porous Materials and Membranes....Pages 343-347 Aerogels for Thermal Insulation....Pages 349-353 Incorporation of dyes in sol-gel matrices....Pages 355-363 Properties of Grin Materials....Pages 365-367 Catalysts....Pages 369-375 Heat-Resistant Fibers and Optical Fibers....Pages 377-381 Nanoscaled Powders for Coatings....Pages 383-397 Biological Applications of Sol-Gel Glasses....Pages 399-402 Laser Glasses....Pages 403-407 Nonlinear Optical Glasses....Pages 409-414 Characterization Techniques Applied To Sol-Gel Derived Coatings and Products....Pages 417-437 Back Matter....Pages 439-493

Sol-Gel Techniques for Glass Producers and Users provides technological information, descriptions and characterizations of prototypes, or products already on the market, and illustrates advantages and disadvantages of the sol-gel process in comparison to other methods. The first chapter entitled Wet Chemical Technology gives a summary of the basic principles of the sol-gel chemistry. The most promising applications are related to coatings. Chapter 2 describes the various Wet Chemical Coating Technologies from glass cleaning to many deposition and post-coating treatment techniques. These include patterning of coatings through direct or indirect techniques which have became very important and for which the sol-gel processing is particularly well adapted. Chapter 3 entitled Bulk Glass Technologies reports on the preparation of special glasses for different applications. Chapter 4 entitled Coatings and Materials Properties describes the properties of the different coatings and the sol-gel materials, fibers and powders. The chapter also includes a section dedicated to the characterization techniques especially applied to sol-gel coatings and products.

"Sol-Gel Techniques for Glass Producers and Users provides technological information, descriptions and characterizations of prototypes, or products already on the market, and illustrates advantages and disadvantages of the sol-gel process in comparison to other methods."--Jacket From the contents: Editor's Preface. List of Contributors. 1. Wet Chemical Technology 2. Wet Chemical coating Technologies 3. Bulk Glass Technologies 4. Coating and Material Properties 5. Subject Index 6. Annex.