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Self-healing glass for smartphones

05.04.2017

Researchers at the University of California at Riverside have unveiled the world's first self-healing glass for smartphones, capable of "healing" minor scratches and chips.

Until now, there were two ways to revive a smartphone with broken glass after a fall - replace the glass or buy a new smartphone. Scientists from the University of California at Riverside have come up with a third way: self-healing glass for a smartphone.

On April 4, 2017, it was presented at the regular meeting of the American Chemical Society. According to Business Insider, the material for such a screen is made of an elastic polymer and ionic salt.

The material has a special type of bond - ion-dipole interaction. Due to it, ions are able to attract polar molecules (with a constant or induced dipole moment) of other substances. When a material is damaged or scratched, the ions and molecules are attracted to each other to "heal" the material. It can stretch up to 50 times its original size.

Several tests were carried out on the ability of the material to self-heal and get rid of cuts and scratches. "Once the material was torn in two, it was able to 'glue' back to its original state within 24 hours," explained chemist Chao Wang involved in the project.

Of course, it is unlikely that such glass will be able to assemble by itself, being shattered, however, according to scientists, it may well cope with a scratch or a small chip.

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