Now this is a technology post!
I don’t know if I’d call materials science technology, exactly, but it’s certainly more on topic than “business but at a tech company” posts.
Yeah yeah we get it, everyone is wrong but you and all that.
Cutting edge materials science and manufacturing is 100% technology.
Wow what a stupid comment. Materials science is technology.
What would you say is technology? Materials science isn’t technology, but what about things made out of the materials created by materials science?
I don’t know if this will actually pan out the way that they imply in the title; armor needs to have a lot of different characteristics in order to be practical. As in, resistance to heat and cold, resistance to acids, alkalines, petroleum distillates, salts, UV, and oxygen, and also resist deformation. Multiple materials have displays significant promise for armor, but had a very short lifespan in real-word conditions. For instance, there was a material trademarked as Zylon that was supposed to be better than Kevlar, and it was used extensively by Second Chance (a body armor company); several cops were killed when their armor failed, and the armor failed because of exposure to sweat and ambient heat.
Yeah, this is a super cool development, but remember that everything that comes out at this stage is hype.
Layer it with Kevlar and good?
It really depends on whether it can be made to meet all the other criteria required for armor. I think that it’s too early to make any good predictions.
Yes… that’s why they use the word “could”. This is how research works and what reasonable science reporting looks like. There were no promises or wild claims made in the article.
…and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people
You mispronounced promote American interests.
America bad
I can’t wait to find out how toxic this is.
Good news, it’s completely non toxic.
Bad news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot.
The pentagon will now take your whole paycheck.
Thank you for your support, patriot.
Good news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot, so they won’t militarise the police further with it.
Well not immediately… Years from now when the military develops something even better then this will all become surplus and sold off to SWAT teams etc. for next to nothing.
There is an old Russian joke.
Son asks his father, “Daddy, I’ve heard the price of vodka went up, does it mean you will be drinking less?”, and the father answers “No, son, you will be eating less”.
The article says the process is scalable.
They will make it into a mandatory dress uniform for school children.
With these bonds so dense, I want to imagine that it would actually be quite non-toxic as these is little to react with.
Then again, I’m not a bio chemist
Of course it’s plastic.
I’m sure it will mix well with the depleted uranium smoke the targeted crew will already be breathing.
I’m sure this is real, but I see a headline like that and I think of schoolyard talk. Like, nuh uh, my armour has 100 trillion bonds, you can’t shoot me.
They must have hired some former Nvidia marketing guys.
Anyone know the cost per kilogram?
Edit: Apparently $20,000/kg
…for now
hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails
I skimmed the article, scrolled down but people hasn’t mentioned its mechanically Chain mail in atomic scale yet? Did I read it wrong?
It is
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China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can’t copy it.
Why don’t they just use diamond, the hardest metal?
Hardness isn’t the best thing to have in armor. In fact, extreme hardness means extreme brittleness.
Tensile strength is more desirable in armor. That’s the sort of strength that a string or rope, or Kevlar will have.
Those can stretch a bit before breaking.
Kevlar will stretch a bit when catching a bullet, this does a few things, but importantly it slows the bullet before stopping it.
So this new material will likely show extreme tensile strength rather than hardness.
Surely I can’t be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
100 trillion barry bonds
At least it’s not 100 trillion James Bonds.
Not if Hank Scorpio has anything to say about it.
