A panel is provided. The panel includes a substrate having a top surface and a liquid-repelling element disposed on the top surface as a single line free of parallel sublines, the single line defining a geometric pattern. The liquid-repelling element comprises graphene nanoparticles.

The present invention provides a layered coating adhered to a substrate surface which conforms to a surface topography defined by the anisotropic chain-like silica nanoparticles on the substrate. The layered coating comprises a layer of anisotropic chain-like silica nanoparticles. The anisotropic chain-like silica nanoparticles comprise linked arrays of silica net-negatively charged nanoparticles, each linked array having at least one linear dimension of about 100 nm to about 1200 nm and the anisotropic chain-like silica nanoparticles each have a diameter of about 20 nm to about 80 nm. The substrate surface comprises surface active moieties carrying a net positive charge and the chain-like anisotropic silica nanoparticles are held to the surface by electrostatic charge. Advantageously, the layered coatings are transparent and superhydrophobic. Also provided are articles containing these layered coatings.

A processing system for forming an optical coating on a substrate is provided, wherein the optical coating including an anti-reflective coating and an oleophobic coating, the system comprising: a linear transport processing section configured for processing and transporting substrate carriers individually and one at a time in a linear direction; at least one evaporation processing system positioned in the linear transport processing system, the evaporation processing system configured to form the oleophobic coating; a batch processing section configured to transport substrate carriers in unison about an axis; at least one ion beam assisted deposition processing chamber positioned in the batch processing section, the ion beam assisted deposition processing chamber configured to deposit layer of the anti-reflective coating; a plurality of substrate carriers for mounting substrates; and, means for transferring the substrate carriers between the linear transport processing section and the batch processing section without exposing the substrate carrier to atmosphere.

The present invention relates to a cover member including a transparent base having first and second main surfaces, an antifouling layer formed on at least a part of the first main surface, a printed layer formed on at least a part of the second main surface, and an adhered member adhered on an antifouling layer-side surface, in which when an adhered-member-contact-portion projected region is defined as a prescribed region in the second main surface, the printed layer is provided on at least a part of a near-boundary region defined as a region from a boundary of the adhered-member-contact-portion projected region to an inward at 1,000 μm from the boundary, and no printed layer is provided on at least a part of an inner region defined as a region 500 μm or more inside from the boundary of the adhered-member-contact-portion projected region.

A method for preparing a cover substrate is provided. The method includes the following steps: providing a substrate with an anti-reflection film formed thereon, wherein the anti-reflection film comprises a first layer with low refractive index; and treating the first layer of the anti-reflection film with fluoride-based plasma to form a hydrophobic layer on the first layer.

The disclosure is directed to a chemically strengthened glass having antimicrobial properties and to a method of making such glass. In particular, the disclosure is directed to a chemically strengthened glass with antimicrobial properties and with a low surface energy coating on the glass that does not interfere with the antimicrobial properties of the glass. The antimicrobial has an Ag ion concentration on the surface in the range of greater than zero to 0.047 μg/cm.sup.2. The glass has particular applications as antimicrobial shelving, table tops and other applications in hospitals, laboratories and other institutions handling biological substances, where color in the glass is not a consideration.

An antiglare glass substrate includes a glass substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface that is opposite to the first main surface. The first main surface has undergone an antiglare treatment and a fluorine-containing organosilicon compound coating film as an antifouling film is laminated thereon. The first main surface partly includes a non-antiglare-treated portion that has not undergone the antiglare treatment. The non-antiglare-treated portion has a surface roughness Ra of less than 10 nm. A difference in height along a plate thickness direction of the glass substrate between the antiglare-treated portion that has undergone the antiglare treatment and the non-antiglare-treated portion is 10 μm or larger and 200 μm or less.

A manufacturing method of a glass article having an organic film includes irradiating a first main surface of a glass plate having the first main surface and a second main surface, opposite each other, with a laser light of a first laser, to form an in-plane void region, in which voids are arrayed, on the first main surface, and internal void arrays, including voids arrayed from the in-plane void region to the second main surface, in the glass plate; depositing the organic film on the first main surface or the second main surface of the glass plate; and irradiating and scanning the first main surface or the second main surface, on which the organic film was deposited, with a laser light of a second laser, along the in-plane void region, to separate the glass article from the glass plate along the in-plane void region.

A surface-treating agent containing a fluorine-containing silane compound; and a metal compound, wherein a metal atom contained in the metal compound is one or more metal atoms selected from transition metal atoms of Groups 3 to 11 and typical metal atoms of Groups 12 to 15 of the periodic table.

The present invention relates to a glass including, in mole percentage on an oxide basis: 60-75% of SiO.sub.2; 8-20% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3; 5-16% of Li.sub.2O; and 2-15% of one or more kinds of Na.sub.2O and K.sub.2O in total, in which a ratio P.sub.Li of the content of Li.sub.2O to a total content of Li.sub.2O, Na.sub.2O, and K.sub.2O is 0.40 or more, and a total content of MgO, CaO, SrO, BaO, and ZnO is 0-10%.