The Effect of Various Silicate-Glass Matrixes on Gold-Nanoparticle Formation

The Preparation and Characterization of Copper-Containing Thin Films Prepared by the Sol-Gel Method on Various Glasses

“…In this paper, we have developed this approach further and tested it on other types of silicate glasses. Besides microscope glass, we have chosen glasses BK7 and GIL49, which were previously used for the creation of optical layers by ion exchange [5,11] or ion implantation [12][13][14][15][16][17][18]. Thin films were deposited on these three substrates by the same approach as that used in [10], with the exception of using exclusively PEG-400 or Triton X-100 as surfactants as these had been proven to have the best effect on the adhesion of the layers to the substrates.…”