Foldable glass article including an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat and methods of making the same

A method of making a glass article, the method comprising:

• disposing an optically transparent adhesive layer on an ultra-thin glass layer;
• and
• disposing an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer on the optically transparent adhesive layer, wherein the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer is a silsesquioxane polymer layer, an aliphatic hexafunctional urethane acrylate layer, or an aromatic hexafunctional urethane acrylate layer and the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer comprises:
• a pencil hardness of 8H or more, and
• a thickness in a range of 10 microns to 120 microns,
• wherein the glass article comprises an impact resistance defined by the capability of the glass article to avoid failure at a pen drop height that is 2 times or more than that of a control pen drop height of the ultra-thin glass layer without the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer, wherein the pen drop height and the control pen drop height are measured according to the Pen Drop Test, and
• wherein the glass article survives a bend radius of 5 mm or less.