Production and Characterization of a Lustre Glaze on Arcopal Body

Lustre production technique is one of the oldest methods of metal nanoparticles fabrication depended on chemical reducing atomosphere. This kind of ceramics is consisted of three steps; body production, applying white glaze on a body and after baking, recovering the lustre glaze on the opaque white glaze. Lustre has fascinating features due to the formation of a thin layer and metal nanoparticles. In this situation, the sample appears in different colors by changing the incident light angle. This happens due to the nano structures created during the manufacturing of the glaze. In this research, a new combination of lustre glaze was produced which is suitable for Arcopal body. Therefore, numbers of thermal treatment steps were reduced from 3 steps to one step. SEM analysis was used to identify the thickness of the thin layer. The layer varies between 200 to 400 nm. The theoretical studies and stimulation of the reflection spectra at different angles show that these results have good agreements with the experimental ones. J. Color Sci. Tech. 8(2014), 75-83©. Institute for Color Science and Technology.