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Soft matter and liquids

Soft matter and liquids

Protecting phone screens with non-Newtonian fluids

03 May 2024 Katherine Skipper
Broken phone screen
Cracked it: Fluid-based screen protectors need to absorb an impact as the system deforms. New research shows that simplifying the geometry of the system can be used to optimize the fluid. (Courtesy: iStock/Aleksei Maznychenko)
New research shows that phones could be strengthened by adding a layer of material to the screen tha

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Katherine Skipper is a features editor at Physics World
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