Sol-Gel Technologies for Glass Producers and Users

Editor's PrefaceList of Contributors1: Wet Chemical Technology2: Wet Chemical coating Technologies2.1 Glass Substrates2.2 Coating Techniques2.3 Post-Coating Treatment Techniques2.4 Patterning Techniques3: Bulk Glass Technologies4: Coating and Material Properties4.1 Passive Coatings4.2 Active Coatings4.3 Gels, Bulk Materials, Fibers and Powders4.4 Characterization5: Subject Index6: Annex1. Important Internet Sites2. Regular Conferences Hosting Sol-Gel Communications3. Proceedings of Most Important Conferences and Books4. Where to Find Publications and Reports5. Market Studies6. Research Groups and Who's Who in Sol-Gel Science and Technology7. Companies Commercializing Sol-Gel Related Glass Products and Sol-Gel Products Useful for Glass Production and Organizations which Offer Developments in Sol-Gel Technology8. Distributors/Manufacturers of Sol-Gel Related Chemical Precursors

Prof. Dr. Michel A. Aegerter graduated as Engineer and Physicist in 1962 at the Swiss Institute of Technology- EPFL, Switzerland and received his Ph.D degree (Dr. ès Sciences) in 1966 at the University of Neuch
tel, Switzerland. After post-doctoral studies at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City,USA, he joined again the University of Neuch
tel as assistant professor and then the University of Sao Paulo, Sao Carlos, Brazil as a full Professor till 1995 where he initiated research in the sol-gel field in 1984 with the collaboration of Prof. Dr. J. Zarzycki. In 1995 he accepted an invitation to be Director of the Department of Coating Technology at the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials gem. GmbH- INM in Saarbruecken, Germany, a position that he still hold. He is also Honorary Professor at the University of Saarland, Saarbruecken (Germany). He is the present Chairman of the Technical Committee TC-16 (Sol-Gel Glasses) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), member of the American Ceramic Society, Material Research Society, SPIE, of several International Advisory Committees, of the Editorial Board of the International J. of Photochemistry, co-editor for Europe of the J. Sol-Gel Science and Technology, editorial Chairman of the International Conference on Coatings on Glass-ICCG as well as referee for several international scientific journals. His present fields of activity covers the research and industrial development of functional, conducting, photoelectrochemical and electrochromic coatings on glasses and plastics, the development of new sol-gel and nanocomposite coating technology. Prof. Dr. Aegerter is the author and co-author of more than 440 scientific publications, 8 patents and co-editor of 12 books.