Porous glass ceramic materials with decorative-protective coating

This study was aimed at producing a porous layered glass ceramic material with a decorative-protective coating via one-stage firing. Waste products were used as gas-forming agents to fabricate a glass ceramic material, which partially solves a problem of their utilization; available natural raw materials were also used as gas-forming agents. A decorative-protective coating was applied simultaneously with the formation of the main layers of the material. It consisted of glass cullet and various amounts of coloring oxide. Firing of the samples was carried out at the temperature of 7500С. The coating containing 99.9 wt.% of glass cullet and 0.1 wt.% of Cr2O3 with the thickness of 425 m and having a greenish color was stated to be the coating of the highest quality. As a result of the research, a three-layer porous glass ceramic material was obtained with a low coefficient of thermal conductivity (0.056 W m–1 K–1). The presence of a fourth front decorative-protective layer will allow using this material in construction as a heat-insulating and structural material without additional cladding.