One of the downsides of optical discs is that they are not particularly durable, leading researchers to look at using quartz glass as a replacement for the typical plastic used. The fact that these discs are fragile has also demanded the rather expensive practice of keeping multiple duplicates at large data centers in order to safeguard against loss of data through breakage.
Now researchers at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have developed a polymer using graphene oxide that makes it possible to retrieve all the information from the disc even in the case of it breaking.
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