MIT researchers have managed to create a new polymer material called 2DPA-1 that has twice the yield strength of steel and up to six times the deformation resistance of bulletproof glass. The unorthodox sheet polymer can be easily spun in mass quantities and used as ultradurable coating for phones and cars, or even as a building material.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/MIT-invents-new-stronger-than-steel-polymer-that-can-be-mass-produced-easily-to-toughen-phones-cars-or-even-buildings.597893.0.html
This sounds like a big deal and could easily earn a Nobel Prize.
One question I have about this and other new materials, how are scientists viewing the pollution and recycling of these new materials? How long will this new poly be on the earth once we start tossing things out. Super strong sounds good if we have methods to recycle it