There is described interleavant particles for location between adjacent stacked glass sheets, the interleavant particles comprising an inorganic core with an outer coating, the outer coating comprising a biodegradable and/or water soluble polymer or film forming material, wherein the inorganic core is solid up to at least 100 C. has a compressive strength of at least 3 MPa and has a volumetric mass density less than 7.5 g/cm.sup.3 at 25 C.

A glass interleavant particle composition for location between adjacent stacked glass sheets. The composition includes a) inorganic interleavant particles and b) polymeric adhesion promoter particles in which the inorganic particles are solid up to at least 100 C. have a compressive strength of at least 3 MPa and have a volumetric mass density less than 7.5 g/cm3 at 25 C.

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for forming low emissivity panels. In some embodiments, a partially fabricated panel may be provided that includes a substrate, a reflective layer formed over the substrate, and a barrier layer formed over the reflective layer such that the reflective layer is formed between the substrate and the barrier layer. The barrier layer may include a partially oxidized alloy of three or more metals. A first interface layer may be formed over the barrier layer. A top dielectric layer may be formed over the first interface layer. The top dielectric layer may be formed using reactive sputtering in an oxygen containing environment. The first interface layer may prevent further oxidation of the partially oxidized alloy of the three or more metals when forming the top dielectric layer. A second interface layer may be formed over the top dielectric layer.

The present invention provides a glass article including a photocatalyst film 1 containing silicon oxide particles 6 and titanium oxide particles 5, and a glass sheet 2. Assuming that the photocatalyst film 1 has a film thickness T, 80% or more of the titanium oxide particles are localized in a region between a surface of the glass sheet 2 and a position spaced from the surface by 0.6 T toward a surface of the photocatalyst film 1 in a thickness direction of the photocatalyst film 1. The glass article has an increased transmittance provided by enhancing the reflection-reducing function of the photocatalyst film 1 while maintaining the film strength and photocatalytic function of the photocatalyst film 1.

A glazing, at least partially transparent, the main surface of which is divided into partial surfaces capable of being concealed, opacified, colored and/or illuminated independently of each other, in whole, in part and/or in accordance with designs, the partial surfaces being associated with invisible touch controls identified by prints, an identification design on the one hand, an offset design for identification and tracking of invisible offset touch controls on the other hand, being associated with at least one of the partial surfaces.

Provided are a coating composition including polymer particles having a number-average primary particle diameter of 30 nm to 200 nm, a siloxane resin which has a weight-average molecular weight of 600 to 6,000, is a siloxane resin including at least one unit selected from units (1), (2), and (3) described below, and has a total mass of the units (1), (2), and (3) being 95% by mass or more of a total mass of the siloxane resin, and a solvent and applications thereof. R.sup.1's each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms or an alkyl fluoride group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, R.sup.2's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 8 carbon atoms, and, in a case where both the units (1) and (2) are included, the alkyl groups having 1 to 8 carbon atoms represented by R.sup.1's or R.sup.2's may be identical to or different from each other.

Unit (1): R.sup.1Si(OR.sup.2).sub.2O.sub.1/2 unit

Unit (2): R.sup.1Si(OR.sup.2)O.sub.2/2 unit

Unit (3): R.sup.1SiO.sub.3/2 unit

In an aspect, a chromatic reflective unit (1) comprises a support structure (7) comprising a plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), a reflective layer (3) formed on the plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), thereby forming a plurality of non-coplanar reflective surface sections (3), respectively associated with one of the plurality of non-coplanar surface sections (7), and a chromatic diffusing layer (5) having a back side provided at the reflective surface sections (3) and a front side for being illuminated by incident light (9), wherein the chromatic diffusing layer (5) comprises a plurality of nanoparticles (37) embedded in a matrix (39), and is configured to provide fortogether with non-coplanar reflective surface sections (3)a specular reflectance that is larger in the red than in the blue and for a diffuse reflectance that is larger in the blue than in the red.

This infrared light shielding laminate includes: an ITO particle-containing layer; and an overcoat layer which covers an upper surface of the ITO particle-containing layer, wherein core shell particles are present in a state of being in contact with each other in the ITO particle-containing layer, and the core shell particle includes an ITO particle serving as a core and an insulating material serving as a shell that covers the core.

A surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid wherein surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particles are dispersed in a liquid medium, and are an infrared absorbing transparent substrate having a coating layer in which the surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particles. This is a surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid in which surface treated infrared absorbing fine particles are dispersed in a liquid medium, wherein the surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particles are infrared absorbing fine particles, each surface is coated with a coating layer containing at least one selected from a hydrolysis product of a metal chelate compound, a polymer of the hydrolysis product of the metal chelate compound, a hydrolysis product of a metal cyclic oligomer compound, and a polymer of the hydrolysis product of the metal cyclic oligomer compound, and this is an infrared absorbing transparent substrate prepared using the surface-treated infrared absorbing fine particle dispersion liquid.

A method for preparing a laminate substrate for a light emitting device, includes (a) providing a glass substrate having a refraction index of between 1.45 and 1.65, (b) coating a metal oxide layer onto one side of the glass substrate, (c) coating a glass frit having a refractive index of at least 1.7 onto the metal oxide layer, the glass frit including at least 30 weight % of Bi.sub.2O.sub.3, (d) firing the thus coated glass substrate at a temperature comprised between 530 C. and 620 C. thereby making react the metal oxide with the melting glass frit and forming a high index enamel layer with a plurality of spherical voids embedded in the lower section of the enamel layer near the interface with the glass substrate.