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Some aspects of the characterization of decorations on ceramic glazes

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From antiquity, glazes have been one of the techniques used for decorating ceramics. Potters took advantage of the optical properties of these glazes to improve the quality of the object, especially to obtain an appearance or some characteristics that had commercial success. This is why it is important to know the reasons of the visual appearance of glazes. In this paper we present some aspects of the characterization of lustre, one of the on-glaze decorations that results in a more spectacular visual effect, as a microstructure, its composition, its raw materials and some technological aspects of its production. Lustre is a three-dimensional heterogeneous structure, where copper and silver nanoparticles play the most important role, but also alkali elements in the glaze and other components of raw lustre pigments. Lustre properties are determined by copper and silver composition and by distribution and dimension of these metallic nanocrystals in the decoration layer.

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  1. Departamento de Química Analítica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009, Zaragoza, Spain

    J. Pérez-Arantegui

  2. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza-CSIC, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    A. Larrea

  3. Departament de Cristallografia i Mineralogia, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028, Barcelona, Spain

    J. Molera & M. Vendrell-Saz

  4. Department FEN, ESAB-CEIB, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 08036, Barcelona, Spain

    T. Pradell

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61.46.+w; 68.37.Hk; 68.37.Lp; 81.05.-t; 79.60.-i; 81.07.-b ; 78.67.Bf; 81.05.Kf; 81.05.Je

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Pérez-Arantegui, J., Larrea, A., Molera, J. et al. Some aspects of the characterization of decorations on ceramic glazes. Appl. Phys. A 79, 235–239 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-004-2508-2

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