Hard and strong transparent glass-ceramics (TGCs) can be used as cooktop plates, telescope mirrors, armor materials, screens for smartphones tablets. In this work, from the MgO–Al2O3–SiO2 (MAS) system were obtained after a refined heat-treatment protocol. The evolution in fracture toughness, KIC (Single Edge Precracked Beam), Vickers hardness (HV) characterized function of crystallization progr...

A novel method for the assembly of thin, uniform transparent and conductive films of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) on glass substrates is described. This process involves the initial transfer of a temporary suspension of SWCNTs in room temperature ionic liquid to the surface of water and the subsequent transfer of the SWCNT film onto a glass substrate. The average sheet resistance of ...

Highly transparent conductive polycrystalline Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) films with a thickness of about 100nm prepared on cyclo-olefin polymer (COP) or glass substrates at various temperatures below 90°C by ion plating with DC-arc discharge were investigated. A systematic study has been made of the influence of substrate temperature Ts on the structural, electrical, optical and residual stress propert...

Multilayer coating structure comprising a copper (Cu) layer sandwiched between titanium dioxide (TiO2) were demonstrated as a transparent heat reflecting (THR) coating on glass for energy-saving window application. The main highlight is the utilization of Cu, a low-cost material, in-lieu of silver which is widely used in current commercial heat reflecting coating on glass. Color tunable transpa...

In this work we present a method for ultra-fine patterning of primary culture neuron cell growth, which is compatible for scanning near-field optical atomic force microscopy (SNOAM) analysis. SNOAM uses near-field optics to break the fundamental diffraction limit imposed on normal microscopy. SNOAM can achieve sub-100 nm optical resolutions, but requires transparent, open substrates. The abilit...

IR-transparent chalcogenide glass-ceramics were fabricated through a careful ceramization process of the as-prepared 65 GeS(2) x 25 Ga(2)S(3) x 10 LiI glasses at a temperature of 403 degrees C for various durations. Owing to the precipitation of Li(x)Ga(y)S(z) crystals with a Ga(2)S(3)-like structure, clear second-harmonic generation was observed in the sample crystallized at 403 degrees C for ...