The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) doctoral candidate has proposed a way to make mobile phones and other personal electronics more strong, resilient, and much less likely to break when dropped. This will really turn to be helpful in the case of very careless people.

The plastic will be be like the above one with a polymer having a relatively fixed ladder-like structure. The key to improving mobile devices ability to survive a fall, according to Prins as mentioned in the Physical Review Letters, is to manufacture semiconductors made from plastic rather than silicon.

She also proved her point by bombarding the new polymers with electrons from a particle accelerator, and recorded the material’s reaction times with accuracy to 100 microseconds.

Way to go Prins, wish you all the best in your experiment. We all wish to have strong cell phones.