{"id":1932,"date":"2009-06-25T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2009-06-25T09:34:54","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T13:34:54","slug":"the-iphone-3gss-oleophobic-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/25\/the-iphone-3gss-oleophobic-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone 3GS&rsquo;s Oleophobic Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5302097\/giz-bill-nye-explains-the-iphone-3gss-oleophobic-screen\">Bill Nye<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2009\/06\/25\/oleophobic\">John Gruber<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5302097\/giz-bill-nye-explains-the-iphone-3gss-oleophobic-screen\"><p>The Applers were able to do this by bonding this oleophobic polymer to glass. The polymer is an organic (from organisms) compound, carbon-based. The glass is nominally inorganic, silicon-based&#8230;solid rock. The trick is getting the one to stick to the other. Although it is nominally proprietary, this is probably done with a third molecule that sticks to silicon on one side and to carbon-based polymers on the other side. Chemical engineers get it to stay stuck by inducing compounds to diffuse or &ldquo;inter-penetrate&rdquo; into the polymer. The intermediate chemical is a &ldquo;silane,&rdquo; a molecule that has silicon and alkanes (chains of carbon atoms).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised and pleased to find that it really does work. Now, about the back of the phone&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Nye (via John Gruber): The Applers were able to do this by bonding this oleophobic polymer to glass. The polymer is an organic (from organisms) compound, carbon-based. The glass is nominally inorganic, silicon-based&#8230;solid rock. The trick is getting the one to stick to the other. Although it is nominally proprietary, this is probably done [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}