{"id":128420,"date":"2021-10-02T02:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/researchers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-unbreakable-glass"},"modified":"2021-10-02T02:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T09:23:39","slug":"researchers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-unbreakable-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/researchers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-unbreakable-glass","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of \u2018Unbreakable\u2019 Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-have-developed-a-new-kind-of-unbreakable-glass.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at McGill University <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/newsroom\/channels\/news\/unbreakable-glass-inspired-seashells-333730\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">have developed the strongest and toughest glass<\/a> ever known. Inspired, in part, by the inner layer of mollusk shells, this glass does not shatter when hit, and acts more like plastic.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/video\/how-strong-is-the-strongest-glass-in-the-world\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/video\/how-strong-is-the-strongest-glass-in-the-world\">The material<\/a>, once commercially viable, could be used to improve cell phone screens, among other applications in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, this may be an example of modern science rediscovering an old technology, now long lost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at McGill University have developed the strongest and toughest glass ever known. Inspired, in part, by the inner layer of mollusk shells, this glass does not shatter when hit, and acts more like plastic. The material, once commercially viable, could be used to improve cell phone screens, among other applications in the future. Interestingly, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}