A high-strength geopolymer hollow microsphere, a preparation method thereof and a phase change energy storage microsphere are provided, including: dissolving sodium hydroxide, sodium silicate and spheroidizing aid in water to form a solution A, and adding active powder to the solution A, stirring and uniformly mixing to form a slurry B, adding the slurry B to an oil phase, stirring and dispersing into balls, filtering to obtain geopolymer microspheres I, washing the geopolymer microspheres I, and then carrying out a high-temperature calcination to obtain the high-strength geopolymer hollow microspheres II; using the high-strength geopolymer hollow microsphere as a carrier, absorbing a phase change material into the carrier, and mixing a microsphere carrying the phase change material with an epoxy resin, adding a powder dispersant and stirring to disperse the microsphere, after the epoxy resin is solidified, screening the superfluous powder dispersant to obtain the phase energy storage microsphere.

In authentication of machineries and cards (artifact) that are used in social acts such as economic acts, an approach of artifact metrics corresponding to biometrics is effective. Therefore, the subject is to find out a material that satisfies requirements of artifact metrics and is, preferably, suppliable stably and also economically, to establish the production method thereof, and to apply these to an individual authentication system of artifact. Porous glass, which possesses a spinodal phase separation structure, is an individual authentication medium as artifact metrics. There is provided a production method thereof, and an individual authentication system utilizing the individual authentication medium.

There is provided a glass substrate for observing minute substance, made of porous glass and capable of separating and capturing a minute substance with a 10 to 500 nm average particle diameter contained in a solution or a suspension, comprising a porous glass substrate having a plurality of pores, wherein the plurality of pores has an average pore diameter ranging from 30 to 110% of the average particle diameter of the minute substance, each of the plurality of pores has a surface pore diameter on an uppermost surface of the glass substrate, a standard deviation of the surface pore diameter is 60% or less of the average particle diameter of the minute substance, and a pore with a pore diameter ranging from 60 to 140% of a pore diameter at peak top in a pore diameter distribution of the plurality of pores occupies 90% or more of total pore volume.

A laminated glass article having a glass core and at least one glass cladding fused to the glass core, the cladding having a porous region at an outer surface thereof. The laminated glass article has a transmittance across an entire spectrum from 875 nm to about 2000 nm that is greater than or equal to 97%, and that has a reflectance across an entire spectrum from 875 nm to 2000 nm that is less than or equal to 3.0%. A method for forming a laminated glass article includes obtaining a laminated glass article have a glass core and a cladding, and heating the laminated glass article to form a phase-separated cladding having an interconnected matrix with discrete dispersed regions. The phase-separated cladding layer is etched to remove the discrete dispersed regions, thereby forming a porous region at a surface of the phase-separated cladding.

Laminated glass articles and methods for making the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a laminated glass article may include a glass core layer and at least one glass cladding layer fused to the glass core layer. The at least one glass cladding layer may be phase separated into a first phase and at least one second phase having different compositions. The first phase of the at least one glass cladding layer may have an interconnected matrix. The at least one second phase of the at least one glass cladding layer may be dispersed throughout the interconnected matrix of the first phase of the at least one glass cladding layer. In some embodiments, the at least one second phase may be selectively removed from the interconnected matrix leaving a porous, interconnected matrix of the first phase.

An article having a nanostructured surface and a method of making the same are described. The article can include a substrate and a nanostructured layer bonded to the substrate. The nanostructured layer can include a plurality of spaced apart nanostructured features comprising a contiguous, protrusive material and the nanostructured features can be sufficiently small that the nanostructured layer is optically transparent. A surface of the nanostructured features can be coated with a continuous hydrophobic coating. The method can include providing a substrate; depositing a film on the substrate; decomposing the film to form a decomposed film; and etching the decomposed film to form the nanostructured layer.

A method of forming a coating that includes depositing a multicomponent glass layer on a polymer substrate and depositing a heat absorbing layer on the multicomponent glass layer. Inducing spinodal decomposition of the multicomponent glass layer by annealing the heat absorbing layer, and etching at least one of a phase separated component of the multicomponent glass layer. The spinodal decomposition may be achieved through a pulse thermal or electromagnetic assisted annealing process. The coating may then be used as a hydrophilic surface, or may be fluorinated using conventional methods to produce the superhydrophobic coating.

Silica coated glass bubbles comprising a glass bubble and a silica coating in direct contact with the outer surface of the bubble, wherein the silica coating is substantially free of silanol groups. A composite comprising a polymer and a plurality of the silica coated glass bubbles dispersed therein. Articles comprising the composite. Methods for making the silica coated glass bubbles.

A glass composition includes from 50 mol % to 80 mol % SiO.sub.2; from 5 mol % to 15 mol % Al.sub.2O.sub.3; from 10 mol % to 25 mol % B.sub.2O.sub.3; greater than or equal to 0 mol % Li.sub.2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % Na.sub.2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % K.sub.2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % Rb.sub.2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % Cs.sub.2O; from 1.5 mol % to 5 mol % MgO; from 4 mol % to 12 mol % CaO; and from 0.5 mol % to 5 mol % SrO. R.sub.2O is from 0.1 mol % to 15 mol %, R.sub.2O being the sum of Li.sub.2O, Na.sub.2O, K.sub.2O, Rb.sub.2O, and Cs.sub.2O.

A phase separated composite glass has a first phase and a second phase. The first phase has an average microstructure size greater than a natural coursing limit of the phase separated composite glass (i.e., outside of what would be achievable by natural phase separation or otherwise in violation of the morphology constraints defined by a liquid-liquid immiscibility dome for the given bulk composition). Methods of preparing a phase separated composite glass based on a phase separated precursor glass or a template glass. Methods include combining a milled first glass corresponding to the first phase and a milled second glass corresponding to the second phase to form a glass mixture. Methods include melting the glass mixture at a temperature from about 25 C. to 0 C. less than an isotherm tie-line between endpoints of a pseudo-binary immiscibility dome defined by the phase separated precursor glass or the template glass.