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US makes strongest-ever armor material with 100 trillion bonds/cm² (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Why don't they just use diamond, the hardest metal?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll be eager to know what the results will be about it's resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Currently, garbage. They used it to reinforce a polymer to go from a strength of 50 MPa to 70 MPa. Kevlar is 10x stronger, commercially scaled, and cheap

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

100 trillion barry bonds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least it’s not 100 trillion James Bonds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Not if Hank Scorpio has anything to say about it.

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