Sol-Gel Technologies for Glass Producers and Users

ISBN-13: 9781402079382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 493 str.

Michel A. Aegerter; M. Mennig; Michel A. Aegerter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Editor’s Preface List of Contributors 1: Wet Chemical Technology 2: Wet Chemical coating Technologies 2.1 Glass Substrates 2.2 Coating Techniques 2.3 Post-Coating Treatment Techniques 2.4 Patterning Techniques 3: Bulk Glass Technologies 4: Coating and Material Properties 4.1 Passive Coatings 4.2 Active Coatings 4.3 Gels, Bulk Materials, Fibers and Powders 4.4 Characterization 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

O autorze

Prof. Dr. Michel A. Aegerter graduated as Engineer and Physicist in 1962 at the Swiss Institute of Technology- EPFL, Switzerland and received his Ph.D degree (Dr. ès Sciences) in 1966 at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. After post-doctoral studies at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City,USA, he joined again the University of Neuchâtel as assistant professor and then the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil as a full Professor till 1995 where he initiated research in the sol-gel field in 1984 with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. J. Zarzycki. In 1995 he accepted an invitation to be Director of the Department of Coating Technology at the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials gem. GmbH- INM in Saarbruecken, Germany, a position that he still hold. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken (Germany). He is the present Chairman of the Technical Committee TC-16 (Sol-Gel Glasses) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), member of the American Ceramic Society, Material Research Society, SPIE, of several International Advisory Committees, of the Editorial Board of the International J. of Photochemistry, co-editor for Europe of the J. Sol-Gel Science and Technology, editorial Chairman of the International Conference on Coatings on Glass-ICCG as well as referee for several international scientific journals. His present fields of activity covers the research and industrial development of functional, conducting, photoelectrochemical and electrochromic coatings on glasses and plastics, the development of new sol-gel and nanocomposite coating technology. Prof. Dr. Aegerter is the author and co-author of more than 440 scientific publications, 8 patents and co-editor of 12 books.