there's an old saying about throwing stones if you live in Glass Houses an ad
Dodge that only really works because Normal glass is highly shatter but these
days we use glass for a heck of a lot more than Windows we interact with our
phones tablets and even some laptops through touching a glass screen and
considering these are all portable devices that we drop hit and generally
mistreat you'd think it would be far easier to shatter them now don't get me
wrong the internet is full of stories of people who've cracked their iPhones but
many people go years and years without anything happening to their glass
displays this is at least partially thanks to toughened glass which is
nearly ubiquitous on Modern mobile devices but how exactly does something
as thin and lightweight as modern smartphones stand up to your cats claws
or drops onto hard concrete floors many kinds of toughened glass such as Corning
ever popular Gorilla Glass work because they have been chemically toughened
intuitively it might seem like chemical toughening is no substitute for just
making the glass thicker but certain chemicals can have a massive impact on
materials think of how strong and light carbon fibers are but toughened glass
like Gorilla Glass that might be in your smartphone is made by a process called
ion exchange you see the glass that
Corning uses as a base for Gilla glass has sodium ions embedded in it which can
be easily displaced by larger potassium
ions sheets of this sodium containing glass are dipped into a bath of liquid
pottassium salt that's heated up to 400°
C or over 750 fah for our American
viewers the heat allows the potassium in the bath to displace the smaller sodium
ions because the potassium ions are larger they actually compress the glass
on a molecular level giving it much greater strength and
resistance to scratches and other kinds of damage now if you'd like to learn
more about Gorilla Glass specifically including what it can actually do in the
real world and some of its other various limitations you can learn more about it
in this video but even though Corning currently has a huge share of the
touchscreen glass Market with gorilla glass that doesn't mean it's the only
technology out there specifically sapphire glass has been tossed around
quite a bit as a possible replacement for silicon based glasses the aluminum
oxide molecules that make up Sapphire gems bond together in a trigonal crystal
structure that makes it extremely strong and hard to the point where it's almost
impossible to scratch and because the typical blue color of sapphires is due
to impurities that can be removed synthetic Sapphire can easily be made to
be colorless it's also even more transparent than current types of common
smartphone glass glass so why isn't everyone using it yet well a huge part
of the reason is simply cost according to estimates from Corning sapphire glass
is about 10 times more expensive to make than Gorilla Glass in fact Apple
invested around a billion dollar in a sapphire Factory in Arizona that ended
up failing partially due to manufacturing difficulties I guess
producing a quar ton cylinder of sapphire in a furnace reaching thousands
of degrees is no small task Sapphire
isn't perfect either because while its hardness means it's tougher to scratch
it also means that it's brittle so it might not provide much better shatter
resistance than current Technologies but in a world that's increasingly reliant
on mobile devices that we want to be thin light and portable Sapphire screens
may become the more popular choice in the near future just don't present a
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