Self-healing smartphone display: Indian researchers create sensation
Never again a broken display? What researchers from India have now presented could, in the best case scenario, revolutionize the smartphone world – and go easy on our wallets. A new crystalline material should ensure that display glass can easily repair itself.
Self-healing display: 10 times harder than existing materials
A broken display is annoying and, depending on the smartphone, can mean a not insignificant financial cut. In some cases, more than 100 euros are now due to equip a cell phone with a new display. However, we may be able to say goodbye to this practice in the future, because researchers from India have now reached a real milestone.
The scientists have managed to develop a crystalline material with a special molecular structure that is about self-healing properties disposes. If the material breaks due to a fall, it simply repairs itself. An “electrostatically driven, precise recombination of the pieces” takes place (source: Science).
Self-healing materials in themselves are no longer a dream of the future. The existing solutions, however, are plastics that are comparatively soft and are not suitable for use in a cell phone. The variant now presented should be the same 10 times harder be as existing, promises project manager Chilla Malla Reddy.
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Researchers see application in smartphone displays
According to the scientists, the self-healing material should not only be used in industry, where components are sometimes exposed to very high loads. Instead, you pose Everyday devices in front. Project team member Bhanu Bhushan Khatua cites cell phones as a specific example: “Such a material could be used for smartphone screens that repair themselves if they fall down and break.”
In the near future, however, smartphones with self-healing displays are unlikely to come onto the market. Even if now a important milestone has been achieved, the technology is not yet ready for mass use, it is said.
