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So... Gorilla glass? edit: yeah... From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass Gorilla Glass is a brand of

So... Gorilla glass? edit: yeah... From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_Glass Gorilla Glass is a brand of specialized toughened glass developed and manufactured by Corning, now in its fourth generation,[1] designed to be thin, light and damage-resistant. This type of glass is not unique to Corning; similar glasses include Asahi Glass Co. Dragontrail and Schott AG Xensation.[2][3] The alkali-aluminosilicate sheet glass [snip] (The link is to asahi.com)

logfromblammo 11y ago
Gorilla glass uses a post-solidification hardening step. The glass described in the article uses a higher aluminum content than any other mass-produced glass, to the point where any contact with a solid surface would produce alumina crystals rather than incorporate the aluminum into the glass structure. So they levitated a glass bead with a continuous stream of air until it solidified. The bead is very strong, but they have no idea how to work the resulting glass into fibers or sheets.
lovemenot 11y ago
>> (The link is to asahi.com) Asahi Glass Co. is a separate company to Asahi Shimbun, the news organisation. AGC has a historical connection to the Mitsubishi group through the founder's family, but really is a wholly independent group of companies.