The invention relates to a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent, the substrate including a coating comprising polysaccharide, which coating serves to reduce or prevent fouling of the substrate caused by contact from the fouling agent, in comparison to an equivalent uncoated substrate. The invention also relates to the anti-fouling coating, to apparatus comprising such coating and to related methods of reducing or preventing fouling of a substrate intended in use to contact a fouling agent.

A hollow body includes a wall which at least partially surrounds an interior volume of the hollow body. The wall comprises a layer of glass and has a wall surface. The wall surface comprises a surface region which is characterized by a contact angle for wetting with water of at least 80. A process for making an item; a hollow body obtainable by this process; a closed container; a process for packaging a pharmaceutical composition; a closed hollow body obtainable by this process; a use of one of the hollow bodies; and a use of a perfluorinated silane or a perfluorosulfonic acid or both is also provided.

A sealed structural body has an internal space and is made of glass, wherein at least a part of a boundary between the internal space of the sealed structural body and the outside is separated by a sealing material containing a metal material and a lead-free oxide glass. The lead-free oxide glass contains at least one of element Ag or P, Te, and V.

Provided are a chemical reaction device able to promote a chemical reaction, and a method for producing same. The chemical reaction device has an optical electric field confinement/chemical reaction container structure obtained by integrating an optical electric field confinement structure for forming an optical mode having a frequency identical to or close to a vibrational mode of a chemical substance involved in a chemical reaction, and a chemical reaction container structure having a space for storing a fluid required for the chemical reaction and containing the chemical reaction, the optical mode and the vibrational mode being vibrationally coupled to promote the chemical reaction.

A method for producing a reflector on a reflector base made of glass is provided. According to the method, a metal-containing coating fluid is deposited on a coating surface and subjected to a burning-in treatment at a temperature below a softening temperature of the glass forming the reflector layer. Deposition of the coating fluid proceeds using a contactless method by inkjet technology. This makes it possible to deposit a reflector layer in a reproducible way and with tight tolerances having a specified layer thickness, as well as to create clean edges without a printing block or similar device. The coating fluid is moved by a print head equipped with a plurality of nozzles and is movable in a movement plane relative to the coating surface. The coating fluid is sprayed onto the coating surface by the print head under pressure and in the form of droplets emerging from the nozzles.

A decorative glass container has clear boundary lines and good adhesion properties, and has a lower layer including a thick wall portion and a thin wall portion, a vapor-deposition layer patterned by a forming region and a non-forming region, and an overcoat layer made of a UV curable resin, on the upper part of the glass container in order. A method for manufacturing the decorative glass container, in which the forming region of the vapor-deposition layer is disposed on the upper part of the thick wall portion of the lower layer, the non-forming region of the vapor-deposition layer is disposed on the upper part of the thin wall portion of the lower layer, and a contact region is provided in which the lower layer and the overcoat layer are in direct contact with each other by way of the non-forming region of the vapor-deposition layer.

A method of coating a substrate surface, the method comprising: providing a substrate having a surface, optionally, treating at least a portion of the substrate surface with an oxidising agent, treating at least a portion of the substrate surface with a composition comprising a polysaccharide, oligosaccharide, polyol or mixture thereof, and incubating the treated substrate with the composition for a predetermined time. Also disclosed are substrates comprising such a coating, vessels comprising such coated substrates and medicals devices comprising such substrates.

The Invention discloses a manufacturing process for preventing shards of heat-resistant glassware from scattering, comprising the following steps: manufacturing a heat-resistant glass tube into corresponding product ware; performing annealing to remove stress; performing thermal shock testing; performing mechanical shock testing; performing mechanical spraying, and performing baking for 10 minutes to 30 minutes at 180 C. to 220 C. by using IR or in a baker. After this solution is used, shards of heat-resistant glassware are prevented from scattering.

There is provided a drinking or eating vessel comprising an inner surface that defines a volume for receiving liquid or solid food and an outer surface that supports an anti-microbial coating and a decorative layer, wherein the anti-microbial coating comprises a polymer formed at a curing temperature of less than 600 C. and contains anti-microbial particles distributed within said coating, wherein the anti-microbial coating and/or the decorative layer define an outermost surface that is exposed to contact by a user of the vessel, and wherein the anti-microbial particles provide anti-microbial protection across the entire surface of said outermost surface. Also provided are corresponding process for producing the drinking or eating vessel.

Cleaning machine (20) of glass articles (G), comprising: a support (21) for supporting a glass article (G); and a heating device (22, 25) located in the vicinity of the support (21), at a distance therefrom, and configured to emit a heat flow (F, H) in the direction of a surface (G1) of the glass article (G) supported by the support (21).