Governing Functionality of Silver Ion-Exchanged Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass Matrix by Small Additives
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
The authors presented an interesting study of Ion exchange (IE) method for glass fabrication. The presented methods provide a wide range of characteristics of the glass especially its transparency.
The experimental data are also well presented and quite solid. Nevertheless, for the deeper information to the reader, the reviewer suggested the authors add 1 table, for the comparative studies, results, method, between these presented results compared to the other glass fabrication methods from the published paper.
For example, a comparison of this method with the ion implantations method, the table feature can be simplicity or complication, cost (if feasible), fabrication time, drawbacks, reproducibilities, high scale production capability, etc. Therefore, an extensive overview can be well understood and value of this paper can be well described.
Author Response
The authors are very grateful to the Reviewers for their work and valuable comments to improve the manuscript. Detailed response to each comment are presented in the attached file.
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Reviewer 2 Report
This manuscript studies the influence of small additives on spectral and optical properties of Na+-Ag+ ion-exchanged silicate glass. The authors may want to address the following comments before consideration for publication.
- Is there a rationale for the choice of the mol% for the PTR glass samples in Table 1?
- The difference in terms of property and performance between the two approaches in Fig. 1 is not clear.
- The authors may consider elaborating the discussion of the results to provide insights into the underlying physics (e.g., the dependence of absorbance spectra on the treatment temperature; the correlation between the SEM image and absorbance spectra).
- Some figure plots can be combined for concise presentation and easy comparison.
- The novelty of this work is not clearly outlined. It is also helpful to discuss the implication of the results on the practical applications.
Author Response
The authors are very grateful to the Reviewers for their work and valuable comments to improve the manuscript. Detailed response to each comment are presented in the attached file.
Author Response File: Author Response.docx
Round 2
Reviewer 2 Report
Comments addressed
