Sol-Gel Technologies for Glass Producers and Users / Edition 1

by Michel Andre Aegerter, M. Mennig

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441954558
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	05/26/2011
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Pages:	493
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

1 Wet Chemical Technology.- 1.1.1 Basic principles of sol-gel chemistry.- 2. Wet Chemical Coating Technologies.- 2.1 Glass Substrates.- 2.1.1 Cleaning glass surfaces.- 2.2 Coating Techniques.- 2.2.1 Dip Coating Technique.- 2.2.2 Spin coating technique.- 2.2.3 Capillary coating technique.- 2.2.4 Flat-spray process for optical coatings on cold glass.- 2.2.5 The Pyrosol® process.- 2.2.6 The aerosol-gel process.- 2.2.7 Electrophoretic coatings.- 2.2.8 Doctor blade.- 2.3 Post-Coating Treatment Techniques.- 2.3.1 Sintering and patterning using laser irradiation.- 2.3.2 Ablation of sol-gel coatings by excimer laser irradiation.- 2.4 Patterning Techniques.- 2.4.1 Embossing.- 2.4.2 Screen printing.- 2.4.3 Pad printing.- 2.4.4 Ink-jet printing.- 2.4.5 Flexographic printing.- 3. Bulk Glass Technologies.- 3.1.1 Monolithic silica glass cylinders for optical fiber.- 3.1.2 Grin glasses.- 3.1.3 Porous glasses.- 3.1.4 Biological gel-glasses.- 4. Coating and Material Properties.- 4.1 Passive Coatings.- 4.1.1 Colored coatings on glass based on noble metal colloids.- 4.1.2 Transparent conducting oxide coatings.- 4.1.3 Ion conducting coatings.- 4.1.4 Hydrophobic and oleophobic coatings.- 4.1.5 Hydrophilic coating materials.- 4.1.6 Interference coatings.- 4.1.7 Ferroelectric thin films.- 4.1.8 Scratch resistant coatings.- 4.1.9 Coatings for high temperature use.- 4.1.10 Coatings for increasing and preserving the bending strength of glass.- 4.1.11 Metallic coatings on dielectric substrates.- 4.2 Active Coatings.- 4.2.1 Phohromic coatings.- 4.2.2 Electrochromic coatings.- 4.2.3 Thermochromic transition-metal oxides.- 4.2.4 Gasochromic coatings.- 4.2.5 Photovoltaic coatings.- 4.2.6 Phoatalytic TiO2 coatings.- 4.2.7 Electrooptical coatings.- 4.2.8 Doped sol-gel coatings.- 4.2.9 Opticalchemical sensors.- 4.2.10 Thin-film optical waveguides.- 4.2.11 Planar waveguide optical amplifiers.- 4.2.12 Integrated optical circuits fabrication.- 4.3 Gels, Bulk Materials, Fibers and Powders.- 4.3.1 Porous materials and membranes.- 4.3.2 Aerogels for thermal insulation.- 4.3.3 Incorporation of dyes in sol-gel matrices.- 4.3.4 Properties of GRIN materials.- 4.3.5 Catalysts.- 4.3.6 Heat-resistant fibers and optical fibers.- 4.3.7 Nanoscaled powders for coatings.- 4.3.8 Biological applications of sol-gel glasses.- 4.3.9 Laser glasses.- 4.3.10 Nonlinear optical glasses.- 4.4 Characterization.- 4.4.1 Characterization techniques applied to sol-gel derived coatings and products.- 5. Subject Index.- 6. Annex.- 1. Important Internet Sites.- 2. Regular Conferences Hosting Sol-Gel Communications.- 3. Proceedings of Most Important Conferences and Books.- 4. Where to Find Publications and Reports.- 5. Market Studies.- 6. Research Groups and Who’s Who in Sol-Gel Science and Technology.- 7. Companies Commercializing Sol-Gel Related Glass Products and Sol-Gel Products Useful for Glass Production and Organizations Which Offer Developments in Sol-Gel Technology.- 8. Distributors/Manufacturers of Sol-Gel Related Chemical Precursors.