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‘…Scientists have developed a way of bulking up an ordinary T-shirt to create wearable armor. By splicing the carbon in the cotton with boron, the third hardest material on the planet, researchers at the University of South Carolina markedly increased the fabric’s toughness. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide—the same material used to shield military tanks.’ (Ecouterre)
I don’t know why, but I want one of these.
I don’t understand this at all.
The nano-wires are ‘super-elastic’ –but ‘stiff’?
And if you’re using it for a t-shirt and get hit by a bullet it doesn’t break, but it remains ‘super-elastic’? How does that help?
The bullet would drag the whole thing right through your body!
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Sure, it’ll stop the bullet from penetrating. But the force of the hit will likely still cause massive internal damage.
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