Papers by Keyword: Antifogging

Abstract: Unlike photo-induced super-hydrophilic inorganic thin films, non-photoinduced innate super-hydrophilic TiO₂/SiO₂ thin films have been successfully prepared in this work. SiO₂/TiO₂ thin films were prepared by solgel method via adding hydrophilic fumed silica to TiO₂ sol and characterized by atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and contact angle meter. The results show that the super-hydrophilicity of the as-prepared thin films can maintain for one month without light irradiation, and the thin films have excellent antifogging property as well.

Abstract: Highly transparent glasses coated with TiO2 hydrosol and polyethylene glycol (PEG) have been successfully fabricated via ultrasonic nebulization technique. Experimental evidences have indicated that the obtained glass surfaces show excellent non-UV activated superhydrophilic wetting and antifogging performance. These properties are significantly affected by calcination temperature and the optimal value is 600 oC. In this paper, the effect of film thickness and the role of PEG in facilitating the pore formation and interacting with TiO2 are also discussed.

Abstract: Solution polymerization method was used to prepare hydrophilic antifogging acrylate resin. By means of comparison, the optimum synthesis technology conditions was obtained that ethyl acrylate was used as soft monomer , methylcrylate was used as hard monomer. The best functional monomers was acrylic acid and methyl acrylic acid. The accessory functional monoer was β-hydroxyl ethyl acrylate. Cross-linking agent methylol acrylamide belongs to self-cross-linking system. Crosslinker was N-hydroxymethyl acrylamide.The quality rate of cross-linking agent and carboxylic acid is 4 to 1 .The resin can be cured perfectly at the temperature of 100°C in 40 min. The prepared acrylate resin had excellent water-solubility and antifogging.

Abstract: Anatase nanocrystals were formed on sol-gel derived SiO2-TiO2 coatings with water vapor or hot water treatments. The anatase nanocrystals were precipitated through hydrolysis of Si-O-Ti bonds, dissolution of SiO2 component, migration of hydrolyzed titania species, and nucleation and growth. The process temperatures can be lowered below 60oC, which should open new applications. It was found that the crystal habit of titania was changes from roundish anatase to sheet-like titania by applying vibration during the hot water treatment. The nanosheets were identified as hydrated titania, TiO2 . mH2O, with layerd structure. The coatings of hydrated titania showed high photocatalytic activities and excellent antifogging properties due to their unique morphology.

Abstract: Formation of coatings with combined properties of being superhydrophilic / superhydrophobic is of immense applications in the field of optics. In our present work, we developed a hydrophilic, antifogging, transparent, and stable coating by employing an anionic electrolyte, Tiron and dip-coating of organic-inorganic mixture. One of the attempts was to adhere Tiron on metal oxide surface by chelating effect, and the other one was to apply an organicinorganic coating on glass or lens substrate. The latter was formulated by mixing appropriate ratios of organic silanol coupling agents and diacrylates component for strong adhesion to the substrate, and inorganic component of a hybrid mixture of silica, titania and Tiron for the antifogging behavior. The surface chemistry of the coated films was studied by taking ATR-IR measurements, and the wetting behavior was characterised by contact angle measurement