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Saint-Gobain Glass France

Saint-Gobian Glass France

Michel Simonet

Xavier Talpaert

Thierry Chopin

Corinne Lehaut

Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric Magnin-Feysot

Anne Durandeau

Marie-Jose Azzopardi

The subject of the invention is a transparent substrate, especially made of glass, provided on at least one of its faces with a layer based on an at least partially oxidized silicon derivative chosen from silicon dioxide or silicon oxides which are substoichiometric in terms of oxygen, silicon oxycarbide or silicon oxynitride, and having a hydrophilic character.

Transparent substrate provided with a silicon derivative layer

The present invention is directed to a process for obtaining a substrate provided with a coating having photocatalytic properties, wherein the coating includes crystallized particles of an oxide of a metal A having photocatalytic properties. The crystallized particles are incorporated into the coating using a mineral binder comprising at least one oxide of a metal B also having photocatalytic properties in the crystallized state. The coating optionally includes at least oxide of a metal M devoid of photocatalytic properties and/or at least one silicon compound of the silicon oxide SiO type. The coating is deposited from liquid-phase dispersions containing the crystallized particles of the oxide of metal A and at least one precursor compound for the oxide of metal B of the binder and optionally a precursor compound for the oxide of metal M and for the Si compound, in a relative proportion A/(B&plus;M&plus;Si) by weight of the metals and Si ranging between 60/40 and 40/60. The present invention is also directed to substrates containing a photocatalytic coating and to liquid-phase dispersions which are used in the preparation of the photocatalytic coatings.

Substrate with a photocatalytic coating

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Creteil, France

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