<story><title>Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)</title><url>https://digitalcosmonaut.com/superfest-ceverit-glass-ddr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lispm</author><text>There was a recent kickstarter project from a German company for Glass bottles based on this technology:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.soulbottles.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ultraglass&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.soulbottles.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ultraglass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;paulkupfer&amp;#x2F;ultraglass-stronger-and-lighter-bottles-with-ion-technology&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;paulkupfer&amp;#x2F;ultraglass-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recent update:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;paulkupfer&amp;#x2F;ultraglass-stronger-and-lighter-bottles-with-ion-technology&amp;#x2F;posts&amp;#x2F;4067281&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;paulkupfer&amp;#x2F;ultraglass-s...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;The research for this was done at the University of Bayreuth: 
&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.glas.uni-bayreuth.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;strongbottles&amp;#x2F;index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.glas.uni-bayreuth.de&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;projects&amp;#x2F;strongbottles&amp;#x2F;i...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;German TV reported about the background here, 20:45 onwards:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.3sat.de&amp;#x2F;wissen&amp;#x2F;nano&amp;#x2F;240315-sendung-epigenetik-armut-hinterlaesst-spuren-im-erbgut-nano-100.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.3sat.de&amp;#x2F;wissen&amp;#x2F;nano&amp;#x2F;240315-sendung-epigenetik-ar...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Superfest – The almost unbreakable East German Glass (2021)</title><url>https://digitalcosmonaut.com/superfest-ceverit-glass-ddr/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>leeoniya</author><text>&amp;gt; While the Superfest glass is by far more durable than normal glass, when they shatter – the burst into a million fine pieces and are a total nightmare to clean up. I’m not sure if it’s because of their potassium chloride coating or because they are made to be super thin, my advice is to not drop them.&lt;p&gt;maybe the same reason [the super hard] prince rupert&amp;#x27;s drops explode. really high internal stress.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;m.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=xe-f4gokRBs&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>