TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - CERAMICS AND GLASS - Preferred Components: The solar glass component comprises at least one of float glass, rolled glass, glass lenses, and mirrors. The solar glass component is optionally tempered. The solar glass component is selected from a crystalline silicon solar glass, an amorphous silicon solar glass, a Cd-Te solar glass, and a copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar glass.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - ORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The organosilane comprises methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMOS).    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The dried gel has no observable porosity. The molecular weight of the sol is less than 1000. The hydrolyzed sols remain stable for a significant period of time without exhibiting change in its chemical or physical characteristics such that when applied to the solar glass component and cured at a temperature of less than 300 degrees C, the dried gel has abrasion resistance sufficient to pass standard EN-1096-2 with a loss of transmission of not greater than 0.5% and enables a post-test light transmission gain of greater than 1% as compared to an uncoated solar glass component. The temperature is selected to tune the abrasion resistance of the coating. A ratio of hydrolyzed organosilane-based sol to hydrolyzed alkoxysilane-based sol is selected to tune the abrasion resistance of the coating. EXAMPLE - Sol 1 was prepared by first mixing 22.5 ml isopropanol (IPA) and 2.5 ml of 0.04 M HCl (pH 1.5). About 262.5 ml of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMOS) was then added to this mixture. The final solution of IPA, HCl, and MTMOS was then sonicated in a sonicator for 35 minutes. Sol II was prepared by first mixing 22.5 ml of IPA and 2.5 ml of 0.04 M HCl (pH 1.5) followed by adding 262.5 ml of methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMOS). Sol II was also sonicated for 35 minutes. After sonication, Sol I and Sol II was mixed in equal parts (12.5 ml each), and 675 ml of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) was added. This final solution was then sonicated for 35 minutes. This mixture was allowed to age under ambient conditions for 24 hours up to 120 hours. After aging, microscope slides (polished with cerium oxide polish, washed, and allowed to dry) were flow coated with the final sol mixture and allowed to dry for 1-10 minutes. The coating exhibited 1.5-3.25% gain in solar transmission. The abrasion resistance of the coating is measured by an abrader device according to European standard EN-1096-2 (glass in building coated glass). The obtained coating had almost no damage after 500 cycles of testing per EN-1096 standard, and showed abrasion losses of only 0.1%.