- "Towards Polymer-Free, Femto-Second Laser-Welded Glass/Glass Solar Modules" (2024) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10443029 .. "Femtosecond Lasers Solve Solar Panels' Recycling Issue" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40325433
- "A self-healing multispectral transparent adhesive peptide glass" (2024) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07408-x .. "Self-healing glass from a simple peptide – just add water" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40677095
- "High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642... .. "A New Wonder Material Is 5x Lighter—and 4x Stronger—Than Steel" https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a44725449/new-mater... ..
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38253573 :
> maybe glass on quantum dots in synthetic DNA, and then still wave function storage and transmission; scale the quantum interconnect
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38608859 re: 2DPA-1 polyamide :
>> However, in the new study, Strano and his colleagues came up with a new polymerization process that allows them to generate a two-dimensional sheet called a polyaramide. For the monomer building blocks, they use a compound called melamine, which contains a ring of carbon and nitrogen atoms. Under the right conditions, these monomers can grow in two dimensions, forming disks. These disks stack on top of each other, held together by hydrogen bonds between the layers, which make the structure very stable and strong.
If not glass or polyamide 2DPA-1,
Maybe aerogels? Can high-carbon aerogels be lased into multilayer graphene circuits?