{"id":207998,"date":"2025-03-07T06:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/super-sapphire-nanostructures-resist-scratches-glare-fog-and-dust"},"modified":"2025-03-07T06:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T12:33:16","slug":"super-sapphire-nanostructures-resist-scratches-glare-fog-and-dust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/super-sapphire-nanostructures-resist-scratches-glare-fog-and-dust","title":{"rendered":"Super sapphire nanostructures resist scratches, glare, fog and dust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/super-sapphire-nanostructures-resist-scratches-glare-fog-and-dust2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A phone screen you can\u2019t scratch no matter how many times you drop it; glasses that prevent glare; a windshield that doesn\u2019t get dusty. These are all possibilities thanks to a new way to produce sapphire.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sapphire\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sapphire<\/a>, a material that most of us think of as just a pretty jewel. But sapphire is seen as a critical material across many different areas, from defense to consumer electronics to next-generation windows, because it\u2019s nearly impossible to scratch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSapphire is such a high-value material because of its hardness and many other favorable properties,\u201d said Chih-Hao Chang, associate professor in the Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering and leader of the new research. \u201cBut the same properties that make it attractive also make it difficult to manufacture at small scales.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A phone screen you can\u2019t scratch no matter how many times you drop it; glasses that prevent glare; a windshield that doesn\u2019t get dusty. These are all possibilities thanks to a new way to produce sapphire. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered techniques to bestow superpowers upon sapphire, a material that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1512,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207998","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}