title: Self-assembled nanoparticle antiglare coatings.
abstract: Here we report a simple and scalable bottom-up technology for assembling close-packed nanoparticle monolayers on both sides of a glass substrate as high-quality antiglare coatings. Optical measurements show that monolayer coatings consisting of 110 nm silica nanoparticles can significantly reduce optical reflectance and enhance specular transmittance of the glass substrate for a broad range of visible wavelengths. Both experiments and numerical simulations reveal that the antiglare properties of the self-assembled colloidal monolayers are significantly affected by the size of the colloidal particles.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
authors.forename: Khalid
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Askar
authors.forename: Blayne M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Dou
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lopez
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Bin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Peng
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jiang