Objective
High performance and long term stable photochromic
components are required for the wide spread use of smart
windows and eyeglass application. At present they are
fabricated from organic photochromes applied to plastics
by very special, expensive techniques or from mineral
glasses with a very special composition and
microstructure, that are in general not suitable for
large area applications.
The objective of this project is to develop a generally
applicable photochromic coating based on new organic
photochromes in tailored organic inorganic nanocomposites
with excellent scratch resistance for plastics and
mineral glass substrates and to demonstrate its technical
and economical feasibility by several photochromic
plastic eyeglass lenses, sunglasses, visors and ski
goggles with lifetimes > 2 years, switching times < 30 s
and acceptable scratch resistance and by a full size
laminated mineral glass car roof and a special
architectural double glazing, with lifetimes > 5 years
and switching times < 60 s.
The baseline of the project is the experience of GLC in
development and production of organic photochromes,
stabilizers and optical polymers and an already existing
nano technology for organic inorganic hybrid materials
with tailored materials properties and technologies at
INM.
The claimed technical innovation is the development for
the first time of photochromic coatings that are
applicable to both plastics and glass substrates with a
high potential for a breakthrough of photochromic smart
materials for large areas and high added value
applications in a wide field. The general approach is the
use of organic inorganic nano composite host materials,
available at INM, with tailored microstructure providing
high mobility of the photochromic dye together with high
scratch resistance and low oxygen permeability in
combination with new chemically adapted organic
photochromes and stabilizers by GLC.
In order to obtain the required coatings performance
state of the art coating and processing techniques will
be screened and adapted by partners SOLA, IC and SSG. The
characterisation of the optical properties and the
mechanical chemical, and long term durability of the
coatings by SOLA, IC and SSG will provide inputs for the
optimisation of the materials synthesis at GLC and INM.
The project will end up in demonstrator devices
development and testing by SOLA, IC and SSG due to their
specific application requirements, based on a scaled up
pilot production (100 I) by GLC, that will be the future
materials producer.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids
- engineering and technology materials engineering nanocomposites
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