Is this the end of screen replacements?
You must have met with a cracked screen, and you know how frustrating it can be. Perhaps the new discovery is the solution of all these problems. Scientists in Tokyo have discovered a new polymer that could be used in the production for the screen of mobile devices, and would have the ability to self-heal once cracked. If this technology gets applied in the mobile industry, it will surely make a confusions in the market.
This is not the first time that material with this potential is revealed. In March this year, chemists discovered a glass that could stretch up to 50 times its size, and in August Motorola got a patent for a display that is also repairing itself.
The new material discovered at the University of Tokyo by scientists led by Professor Takuzo Aida is called "Mechanically robust, readily repairable polymers via tailored noncovalent cross-linking" and scientists have promised a unique glass-like polymer to be called " polyether-thioureas" that will be repaired with the simple touch of a hand.
According to some sources, this material was discovered accidentally by the student Yu Yanagisawa, who thought he was making a type of glue. He discovered that the polymer edges sticks to each other and form a solid surface after hand pressure with temperature of 21 degrees C.
We believe that all careless people with broken phones can hardly wait for one such model that they will be able to repair in a second with just one hand pressure on the screen!
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