Fabrication including sol-gel float processing

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1997-06-23

1999-06-22

Speer, Timothy M.

Glass manufacturing

Processes

Sol-gel or liquid phase route utilized

651821, C03B 800

Patent

active

059144378

ABSTRACT:
Cracking in thin sheets of sol-gel-produced material is avoided by use of a support liquid during gelation and drying. Silica glass, as well as other glass and ceramic bodies, is contemplated.

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C.J. Brinker and G.W. Scherer, Sol-Gel Science Acad. Press, Boston, pp. 2-18 (1990).

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