I love it when companies invent new physical principles to try to sell something. This one sounds like it is right up there with the Turbonator and heat "dispersion" on an aluminum IC by using a microscopically thin polymeric coating.

I'll tell you what - when they are willing to coat one-half of a windshield, so that you can see over time whether it works or not, let me know. Until then, it sounds like a lot of marketing and pseudo-scientific malarkey.

A spray-on coating that is harder than glass? Not likely, or it would be on every military ground vehicle and airplane...

 

lol, yeah you'd think maybe they'd all have plenty of armor on em too, pretty sure there is scientific evidence for plates of steel and composite materials stopping bullets, but I seem to remember we don't always go in with that the best of that on our vehicles.

Really you're most likely to see canopies made of hot stretched acrlyic(which The Naval Research Laboratory helped develop), they'll also use plastic glazing processes on canopies. They avoid glass like the plague. Glass is heavy and weak compared to alot of materials out there, it's only advantage for most applications is cost. If it wasn't relatively cheap we wouldn't have any wind shields or windows made of glass. Plus it's alot harder to determine how glass will fracture than some more advanced materials, and how that material will blow apart is important if you need it to blow out before you eject.

It's not saying it's harder than glass, but creates a less frictional surface. As a result material hitting it is less likely to scratch it, which would reduce the opportunity for facture. And any material that fills in mircoscopic pits in a material will strengthen it, even having water filling those pits will strengthen your windshield just through the adhesive and cohesive forces between the water and the glass, granted the gain would be minimal. The science seems sound, though probably over hyped in how they present it.

 

bosfordjd - OK you've convinced me - I'm going to run out and wax my windshield tomorrow!
6^)

 

Just make sure it's nanotechnology enhanced wax, with special additives to resist evaporation and deflect bowling ***** dropped from over passes. I can sell you some, it' only 3 easy payments of 99.95, plus shipping and handling. If you order in the next 5 minutes I'll even throw in a free spatula, special swiss hand cream and a pocket fisherman. That's a $50 value, for FREE!.. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...I'll even throw in my patented Junk Neutralizing Unit for free.

Let's recap, thats the nano wax with bowling ball deflectable properties, spatula, swiss hand cream, a pocker fisherman and the patented Junk Neutralzing Unit. OVER A $500 value for only 3 easy payments of $99.95. You better hurry because this deal is only for the next 5 minutes.