Paper-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets In Their Tracks

[longknife]

by The Week

If researchers from Rice University and MIT have their way, the super soldier of the future will be outfitted in razor-thin armor that's impervious to bullets. The team of mechanical engineers and materials scientists have developed a special ballistics material that's just 20 nanometers thick (a water molecule is just one-nanometer wide) and can stop a deadly projectile in its tracks.

Read more @ Paper-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets In Their Tracks - Business Insider

 

[daveman]

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[ABikerSailor]

Cool stuff.

Wonder if they could make it into some kind of coating for bullet proof vehicles?

 

[whitehall]

by The Week

If researchers from Rice University and MIT have their way, the super soldier of the future will be outfitted in razor-thin armor that's impervious to bullets. The team of mechanical engineers and materials scientists have developed a special ballistics material that's just 20 nanometers thick (a water molecule is just one-nanometer wide) and can stop a deadly projectile in its tracks.

Read more @ Paper-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets In Their Tracks - Business Insider

If the Troops have their way you can bet your ass that the "researchers" from Rice and MIT will be the first ones to wear the junk in combat.

 

[Nightson]

Very interesting. To stop a bullet is one thing. How about the dispersal of kinetic energy away from organ tissue?