A method for forming a thin film having durability at a low cost is provided. A film formation apparatus 1 is used in the film formation method. The apparatus 1 comprises a vacuum container 11, in which a substrate 100 is placed at a lower part, a vacuum pump 15 for exhaust inside the container 11, a storage container 23 for storing a coating agent 21 provided outside the container 11, a nozzle having an ejection part 19 capable of ejecting the coating agent 21 at its one end and a pressurizing means (a gas supply source 29, etc.) for pressurizing a liquid surface of a coating agent 21 stored in the storage container 23. A solution, which includes two or more kinds of materials including a first material (S1) and a second material (S2) having a higher vapor pressure (P2) than a vapor pressure (P1) of the S1 and has a concentration of the first material being 0.01 wt % or more, is used as the coating agent 21. The coating agent 21 is ejected to a substrate in an atmosphere with a pressure of P2 or higher (excepting pressures higher than P2 by one digit or more) and with an ejection pressure of 0.05 to 0.3 MPa.

The invention relates to a method of storing a thin sheet glass film (10). According to the invention, the thin sheet glass film (10) is held at two sides, at least one side of the thin sheet glass film (10) is coated over its entire surface with a fluid coating material (20) comprising at least one drying agent, the coating material (20) sets to form a solid polymeric coating, and the coated thin sheet glass film (10) is rolled up for storage.

The disclosure relates to a method for making a metal nanowire film. The method includes applying a metal layer on a substrate; placing a carbon nanotube composite structure on the metal layer, wherein the carbon nanotube composite structure defines a number of openings and parts of the metal layer are exposed by the number of openings; dry etching the metal layer using the carbon nanotube composite structure as a mask; and removing the carbon nanotube composite structure. The carbon nanotube composite structure includes a carbon nanotube structure and a protective layer coated on the carbon nanotube structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes a number of carbon nanotubes arranged substantially along the same direction.

A method of making colored glass in a float glass process includes the steps of: melting glass batch materials in a furnace to form a glass melt; transporting the glass melt into a float glass chamber having a flame spray device, the glass melt forming a float glass ribbon; supplying at least one coating material to the flame spray device to form a spray having coating particles; and directing the spray onto the float glass ribbon to diffuse the particles into the surface of the float glass ribbon to form a glass sheet of a desired color.

A glazing includes a transparent substrate, and at the periphery of the substrate, at least one emitter of hydrophobic compounds by a gaseous process; the at least one emitter being arranged to enable the release of the hydrophobic compounds, and a fraction of the released hydrophobic compounds being able to be deposited on the surface of the transparent substrate.

An embodiment radiative cooling glazing unit includes a first transparent base layer, a first light reflecting layer on the first transparent base layer and having a reflectance of 80% or greater for light with a wavelength of 780 to 1,300 nm and a transmittance of 70% or greater for visible light with a wavelength of 400 to 780 nm, a second light reflecting layer on the first light reflecting layer and including a stack of a first metal protective layer, a metal layer, and a second metal protective layer sequentially stacked on the first light reflecting layer, and a second transparent base layer on the second light reflecting layer.

A near-infrared cut filter glass has: an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 400-550 nm of 50-92%; a transmittance at a wavelength of 700 nm of 40-92%; an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 850-950 nm of 0.0001-70%; and an average transmittance in a wavelength range of 1200-2500 nm of 0.0001-60%.

Techniques for drying and crystallizing a film of crystalline material, such as a perovskite, from a solution are disclosed.

An infrared transmissivity measurement method is for measuring an infrared transmissivity of a quartz glass crucible which includes a transparent layer made of quartz glass that does not contain bubbles, a bubble layer formed outside the transparent layer and made of quartz glass containing bubbles, and a semi-molten layer formed outside the bubble layer and made of raw material silica powder solidified in a semi-molten state. The infrared transmissivity measurement method includes processing an outer surface of the quartz glass crucible formed by the semi-molten layer to lower a surface roughness of the outer surface; and measuring an infrared transmissivity of the quartz glass crucible based on infrared light passing through the outer surface after processing the outer surface.

Disclosed is a liquid-phase alloy catalyst, method of manufacturing same and two-dimensional chalcogenide thin film comprising thermodynamically induced grain boundary in monolayer crystal using same. In detail, a liquid-phase alloy catalyst for synthesizing a two-dimensional chalcogenide thin film, the liquid-phase alloy catalyst comprising an alloy including an alkali metal, a transition metal and an oxygen atom. The present disclosure has the effect of stably providing a uniform chemical environment through an independent liquid alloy catalyst in a chemically non-uniform synthetic environment.