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Fabrication of Ultra-thin Color Films with Highly Absorbing Media Using Oblique Angle Deposition
Published on: August 29, 2017
Preventing UV-light damage of light sensitive materials using a highly protective UV-absorbing coating
Marcos Zayat1, Pilar Garcia-Parejo, David Levy
1Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid-ICMM, CSIC, 28049, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
One of the most important drawbacks of classical and new advanced functional materials for applications outdoors, or in environments with high UV irradiation, is the light induced damage that reduces drastically their effective operation lifetime or durability. This makes protecting light sensitive materials against UV irradiation a nowadays important technological demand in almost every industrial field. This tutorial review incorporates the main aspects of UV damage to materials and describes the recently developed highly effective thin UV-protective coatings, based on UV-absorber molecules entrapped in a Sol-Gel derived ormosil matrix.
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