Mobile phones today have truly adopted the all-glass of new personification of a familiar idea, like gorilla glass, corroded glass corning gorilla glass, and the rest but according to  JerryRigEverything “Glass is glass, and glass breaks.”

However, now, researchers at the Carnegie Institution for Science have developed a new kind of ultrahard carbon glass that’s one of the hardest in the world. Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an international research team that synthesized a new ultrahard form of carbon glass with a wealth of potential practical applications for devices and electronics. According to their findings, it is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Their findings are published in Nature.

Diamond is one of the hardest materials known to man. This is because the bond holding the carbon-based material is made in a particular pattern. Other kinds of carbon such as soft graphite have two-dimensional bonds. But, using diamond to create a glass is not only going to be expensive, but its high melting point makes it an impossible starter material.

Researchers have created a breakthrough using a form of carbon, composed of 60 molecules arranged to form a hollow ball. This material was heated just enough to allow the ball to fall on its own, to induce disorder before turning the carbon to crystalline diamond under pressure.

The team then used a large-volume multi-anvil press to synthesize the diamond-like glass. Researchers claim that the glass is sufficiently large for characterisation. High-resolution techniques for probing atomic structure confirmed its properties.

Researchers claim that this glass is the hardest known glass with the highest thermal conductivity among all glass materials. Moreover, it has potential applications for numerous devices and electronics.

Yingwei Fei, one of the lead researchers of the study explains, "The creation of glass with such superior properties will open the door to new applications. The use of new glass materials hinges on making large pieces, which has posed a challenge in the past. The comparatively lower temperature at which we were able to synthesize this new ultrahard diamond glass makes mass production more practical."

This is pretty good news and welcome upgrade in as much as it is not going to make our smartphones more expensive.

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