The discovery opens the way for super-durable glass that could triple the lifespan of everyday products like car windows, construction materials, fish tanks and even toilet seats. Lamborghini and MIT reveal world’s first ‘self-healing’ carIn a lab demonstration for AFP, Yanagisawa broke a glass sample into two pieces. The secret lies in the thiourea, which uses hydrogen bonding to make the edges of the shattered glass self-adhesive, according to Yanagisawa’s study. Google Glass reborn for the workplaceBut what use is all this if it cannot produce a self-healing smartphone screen? “It is not realistically about fixing what is broken, more about making longer-lasting resin glass,” Yanagisawa told AFP.

Source: The Express Tribune December 28, 2017 05:48 UTC