> Gorilla Glass faces varying competition from close equivalents, including AGC Inc.'s Dragontrail and Schott AG's Xensation and synthetic sapphire.

"A New Wonder Material Is 5x Lighter—and 4x Stronger—Than Steel" (2023) https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a44725449/new-mater... :

"High-strength, lightweight nano-architected silica" (2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266638642...

[Zirconium] carbide ceramics

Silicon carbide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_carbide

2DPA-1 polyaramide: https://www.google.com/search?q=2DPA-1

https://news.mit.edu/2022/polymer-lightweight-material-2d-02... :

> 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.

> “Instead of making a spaghetti-like molecule, we can make a sheet-like molecular plane, where we get molecules to hook themselves together in two dimensions,” Strano says. “This mechanism happens spontaneously in solution, and after we synthesize the material, we can easily spin-coat thin films that are extraordinarily strong.”

> Because the material self-assembles in solution, it can be made in large quantities by simply increasing the quantity of the starting materials. The researchers showed that they could coat surfaces with films of the material, which they call 2DPA-1.

FWIU, melamine is somewhat fire-supressive due to the Nitrogen.

Most other melamine products are made with formaldehyde? There is formaldehyde-free plywood for lower VOCs.

But what about fire rating and recyclability after damage due to severe weather?