Abstract: An optical element has a substrate body made from transparent plastic and a coating having multiple layers. The coating includes a hard lacquer layer adjoining the substrate. The coating has a diffusivity ensuring the absorption of water molecules passing through the coating in the substrate and the release of water molecules from the substrate through the coating from an air atmosphere on that side of the coating facing away from the substrate with a flow density which, proceeding from the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 23° C. and 50% relative humidity, brings the setting of the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 40° C. and 95% relative humidity within an interval not more than 10 h longer than for setting this equilibrium under corresponding conditions with an identical uncoated substrate.

Abstract: An optical element has a substrate body made from transparent plastic and a coating having multiple layers. The coating includes a hard lacquer layer adjoining the substrate. The coating has a diffusivity ensuring the absorption of water molecules passing through the coating in the substrate and the release of water molecules from the substrate through the coating from an air atmosphere on that side of the coating facing away from the substrate with a flow density which, proceeding from the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 23° C. and 50% relative humidity, brings the setting of the equilibrium state of the quantity of water molecules absorbed in the substrate in an air atmosphere at 40° C. and 95% relative humidity within an interval not more than 10 h longer than for setting this equilibrium under corresponding conditions with an identical uncoated substrate.

Abstract: A coating forming composition that includes: (a) a silane derivative of Formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3 and R4 that can be the same or different are selected from alkyl, acyl, alkylene acyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or alkylene aryl that can where necessary be substituted, and/or a hydrolysis product and/or condensation product of the silane derivative of Formula (I), (b) a silane derivative of Formula (II) R6R73-nSi(OR5)n??(II) wherein R5 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, acyl, alkylene acyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or alkylene aryl group, R6 is an organic residue that contains an epoxide group, R7 is an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl or alkylene aryl group, n is 2 or 3, and/or a hydrolysis product and/or condensation product of the silane derivative of Formula (II), (c) a colloidal inorganic oxide, fluoride or oxyfluoride, (d) a cycloaliphatic or aromatic epoxide, and (e) a solvent.