Self Cleaning Anti Reflective Gloss Laptop Screens
MIT scientists have discovered a new way of surfacing glass which could help eradicate its reflective properties, thus removing the problem, for many, of a mirror like reflective glare on their screen when using their laptop outdoors.
Aside from the benefits the innovation of such glass could have in the computing world, such a discovery could also be considered extremely useful in the wider community. For example, solar panels constructed of the new material would be capable of absorbing a greater proportion of the sun’s rays, thus making use of energy that would have been otherwise reflected.
The glass could, theoretically, also be used to create car windows that were both resistant to fog and self cleaning. Imagine too the benefits that could be provided by using such material in optical lenses for eyeglasses!
The scientists that created this unique material variant did so by creating a sheet of glass composed of a number of thing layers, the final surface of which is lined with nano-sized cones 200 nanometres wide and 1000 nanometres high.
They maintain that the mass production of such a material would be relatively simple; requiring only that molten glass be passed through a set of textured rollers.
