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Say goodbye to smashed phone screens! Scientists develop a new material that is as light as plastic but stronger than STEEL ‐ and is up to six times more difficult to damage than bulletproof glass
2022-02-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] I don’t know about the rest of you, but this is going to make Mr. Wife’s budget very happy. I do not dance gently through life.
  • The material was made by Massachussets Institute of Technology-led experts

  • It is formed from layers of tiny molecular discs that stack in order to form sheets

  • Each layer is held together by hydrogen bonds, making it strong and lightweight

  • It was long thought impossible to produce a two-dimensional polymers like this, called polyaramides

  • But special joins between each disk prevent them from twisting out-of-plane

  • Alongside protective coatings, the material could be used in construction
Posted by:Skidmark

#8  Hydrogen Sulfide?
You a rig man?
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-03 17:23  

#7  Was in a H2S training and one of the hands had replaced his gorilla glass screen protector and was flexing the damaged one when it exploded and sent glass fibers and bits everywhere. Cool, other than having to get that crap off.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2022-02-03 15:08  

#6  Been using a phone w/ gorilla glass for years. Dropped, poked, skewered, stepped on, spilled on w/o a scratch.
Posted by: Ulelet Snusotch7182   2022-02-03 15:04  

#5   could be released as soon as 2019

Always, always the great invention is a mere five or ten years from factory production.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-02-03 15:00  

#4  Sidebar, at the bottom of the article:

Will your next phone have a screen made of DIAMONDS? Firm claims new type of shatterproof glass could be released as soon as 2019
Posted by: Bobby   2022-02-03 13:03  

#3  ^2 Bakelite was pretty cheap from the get-go and it was a revolution in materials science, IMNSHO.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843   2022-02-03 12:10  

#2  Won't be used in phone screens. I assume the material is not cheap.
Posted by: Chris   2022-02-03 09:33  

#1  Ah'm thinkin body armor and spaceships.
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-02-03 07:27  

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