According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties.
During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter.
These materials could be incorporated in "nanoarmors" able to protect soldiers or police forces within three years."
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Cool, hope it's really rolled out in 3 years link
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thats pretty nuts dude, but i feel like getting hit with something that strong and not having it penetrate could still do something to your insides
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Wait till it actually hits the market and independent tests are done. If it's three years away, there's a lot of R&D that still needs to be done, and these people are just trying to drum up investor interest with a little bit of PR work.
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Wouldn't 250 tons per square centimeter be rather large amounts of violent force? Were you to survive the kinetic energy of such a shot, I get the funny image of police officers or tanks or whatever they'll deck out in that flying through the air and smashing through buildings, Hit By Superman style.
MRDOD wrote:Wouldn't 250 tons per square centimeter be rather large amounts of violent force? Were you to survive the kinetic energy of such a shot, I get the funny image of police officers or tanks or whatever they'll deck out in that flying through the air and smashing through buildings, Hit By Superman style.
250 tons per square centimeter, but most bullets aren't a square centimeter at the tip. They're maybe a millimeter square, if that.
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I just read through the article... whatever happened to the idea of using carbon nanotubes as armor?
(Once upon a time, I had a character who wore a suit of full armor made of cubic zirconium... and yes, his body was 'upped' to be actually able to move around in it...)
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Posted by Zonk on Sunday December 18, @01:25AM
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Izeickl writes "According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties. During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter. These materials could be incorporated in "nanoarmors" able to protect soldiers or police forces within three years."
This same company, ApNano Materials Inc. has also made a solid lubricant (Insert Lube Joke here) based on nanotech particles as well. All I can say to this is 'w00t'.
Merged the two threads...I wont bother asking why one of them was in gaming and computers...
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Sorry, It was a possible future technology and not a implementation yet, so I didn't think that it'd be N&P worthy
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According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties.
During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter.
These materials could be incorporated in "nanoarmors" able to protect soldiers or police forces within three years."
We are the Jews, resistance is futile .
Cool, hope it's really rolled out in 3 years link
Great. So the armor won't break and when the rounds hit, the armor itself is punched into the person from the momentum...
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