Provided is an inorganic fine particle dispersion which has excellent storage stability and from which it is possible to form a coating film having high light transmittance and high coating film strength (high adhesiveness with respect to a base material of the coating film). The inorganic fine particle dispersion contains inorganic fine particles, a liquid dispersion medium A (excluding water) having a boiling point not lower than 100? C. but lower than 190? C., and a liquid dispersion medium B having a boiling point lower than 100? C. The percentage content of the liquid dispersion medium A is not less than 0.5 mass % but less than 15 mass % with respect to 100 mass % of the total amount of the inorganic fine particle dispersion.

Embodiments of an article including a substrate and a patterned coating are provided. In one or more embodiments, when a strain is applied to the article, the article exhibits a failure strain of 0.5% or greater. Patterned coating may include a particulate coating or may include a discontinuous coating. The patterned coating of some embodiments may cover about 20% to about 75% of the surface area of the substrate. Methods for forming such articles are also provided.

Disclosed are a manufacturing method of an anti glare layer and a display panel. The method comprises: preparing a spray solution comprising sprayed particles, each having a shell structure; spraying the spray solution uniformly onto the glass substrate by a spraying device to form an arrangement structure on the glass substrate; spraying an acidic liquid on the arrangement structure to remove the shell structures of the sprayed particles each having the shell structure to form gaps among the spray particles; implementing an annealing treatment to the sprayed particles to form the anti glare layer. Thus, the light diffraction effect can be reduce or even eliminated to improve the picture quality of the display for promoting the comfort of the user viewing.

A glazing includes at least one substrate one portion of which includes an electrically conductive element, the conductive element including a connector made of chromium-containing steel, which connector is soldered with a solder based on tin, silver and copper to an electrically conductive track, wherein the electrically conductive track, which is formed by fritting a silver paste including a mixture of silver powder and glass frit, has a resistivity measured at 25? C. lower than or equal to 3.5 ??.Math.cm and a porosity level lower than 20%, the porosity level being measured by scanning electron microscopy from a cross section through the portion of the substrate including the electrically conductive track and having been polished beforehand by ion milling.

Glass stack configurations including a carrier plate, setter plates, and glass sheets for thermal treatment of the glass sheets to form glass ceramic articles are provided. The glass stacking configurations and components described herein are selected to improve thermal uniformity throughout a glass stack during ceramming processes while maintaining or even reducing the stresses in the resultant glass ceramic article. Accordingly, the glass ceramic articles made according to the various embodiments described herein exhibit improved optical qualities and less warp than glass ceramic articles made according to conventional processes. Various embodiments of carrier plates, setter plates, parting agent compositions, and methods of stacking glass sheets are described.

An optical fiber includes a glass fiber including a core and a cladding, and a first resin layer in contact with the glass fiber and covering the glass fiber. The first resin layer includes a cured product of a resin composition containing a photopolymerizable compound and a photopolymerization initiator, and when the first resin layer is heated from 30? C. to 150? C., a rate of reduction in mass of the first resin layer is 6.0% by mass or less.

An architectural transparency includes a substrate; a first dielectric layer over at least a portion of the substrate, a first metallic layer over the first dielectric layer, a first primer layer over the first metallic layer, a second dielectric layer over the first primer layer, a second metallic layer over the second dielectric layer, a second primer layer over the second metallic layer, a third dielectric layer over the second primer layer, a third metallic layer over the third dielectric layer, a third primer layer over the third dielectric layer, and a fourth dielectric layer over the third primer layer. At least one of the metallic layers is a subcritical metallic layer.

In one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an antireflective coating composition comprising (a) hydrophilic spherical silica nanoparticles; (b) hydrophilic elongated silica nanoparticles, wherein the coating composition exhibits a pH-value in the range of from 7 to 12.5 and the ratio between the hydrophilic spherical silica nanoparticles (a) and the hydrophilic nonspherical silica nanoparticles (b) is in the range of from 10:1 to 1:10. In a further aspect of the present disclosure there is provided a method for coating a substrate, comprising the steps (i) providing a substrate having at least one surface; (ii) providing the antireflective coating composition according to the present disclosure; (iii) coating the substrate on at least one surface; (iv) drying the coating, thereby obtaining a coated substrate, wherein step (iv) is carried out at a temperature in the range of from 5 C. to 300 C.

A glass drawdown coating system includes a container defining a glass ribbon path having a first side and a second side. At least one nanoparticle coater is located adjacent the first side and/or the second side of the glass ribbon path.

A glass article includes a glass substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and an edge. At least one nanoparticle region is located adjacent at least one of the first surface and the second surface.