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.

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 Photochromic 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 Photocatalytic 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.