The modern smartphone came about thanks to numerous technologies, including more powerful mobile processors and enhanced mobile networks, but we cannot discount the effect of hardened glass. Materials like Corning Gorilla Glass made it possible to carry a glass sandwich in your pocket without getting shards of glass stuck in your leg every time you bump into a table, but even the latest durable glass materials are a weak point. That might not be true if an experimental material from the University of Bayreuth in Germany lives up to the hype. Researchers say they've created an aluminosilicate glass that is much harder to break.
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