• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.767-774
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• 2016

Three different alumina sols were prepared by hydrolyzing aluminum isopropoxide as a starting material in methanol solvent, followed by peptizing with acetic acid, nitric acid or hydrochloric acid as a peptizing agent by the Sol-Gel Method. Also, coating solutions were obtained by adding a silane coupling agent, (3-glycidyloxypropyl) trimethoxysilane to the alumina sols, deposited on polycarbonate substrates by dip-coating and densified by thermal curing. The effect of types of peptizing agents was studied on the properties of coating films. As a result, coating films, prepared with hydrochloric acid or nitric acid as a peptizing agent, showed excellent properties of pencil hardness of H or 2H and adhesion of 5B. On the other hand, coating films, prepared with acetic acid as a peptizing agent, exhibited poor properties of pencil hardness of HB and adhesion of 3B.