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So the same company that has made ceramic glass for phones is making ceramic glass for phones?
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
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Says the company that has said this about every single version of their glass for the last 10+ years?
Don't get me wrong I love how durable and scratch resistant modern phone screens are compared to the first ones, but let's not kid ourselves. These are tiny incremental improvements each generation at this point.
They finally cracked it?
Wake me up when they finally do transparent aluminum.
We've been able to make that for a few years now (I'm still here, so I must have missed the Klingon Bird of Prey train off themis damn planet) but it was expensive
But just last month they figured out how to do it more cheaply so it might be coming... someday
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-transparent-aluminum-tiny-acid-droplets.html
Current methods of making TAlOx are expensive and complicated, requiring high-powered lasers, vacuum chambers, or large vats of dangerous acids. That may change thanks to research co-authored by Filipino scientists from the Ateneo de Manila University.
Instead of immersing entire sheets of metal into acidic solutions, the researchers applied microdroplets of acidic solution onto small aluminum surfaces and applied an electric current. Just two volts of electricity—barely more than what's found in a single AA household flashlight battery—was all that was needed to transform the metal into glass-like TAlOx.
I doubt it, since they keep putting glass on the back of phones too so you're pretty much guaranteed to hit glass when you drop it.
Day 11 of wondering why people don’t just use cases and screen protectors on their phones
Vs the gorilla glass that's been on phones for like a decade now?