Shear thickening fluids were apparently researched for this before. I wonder why this one was missed then.
I'm going to guess...men don't spend as much time in the kitchen?
Chemical interaction/degradation of the materials? Ability to retain the materials in the proper placement to work together (fluid component migration)?
Maybe they gave up too soon, or more likely, their government funding ran out.
Not complicated or cheap enough to peddle to government agencies.
Yes. The specific formula may be new, but the idea is not. The article linked below, "Liquid Body Armor," is from the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science in November, 2013:
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/11/liquid-body-armor/
Shear thickening fluid, colloquially known as “liquid body armor”, was developed in 2002 at the United States Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. Two scientists – Norman Wagner, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, and Eric Wetzel, a staff member at the laboratory – led the development team. The application for US Patent No. 7,226,878, the patent for “Advanced Body Armor Utilizing Shear Thickening Fluids,” was submitted in 2003 and issued four years later (2). Wagner and Wetzel were subseqently awarded the Paul A. Siple Award, the Army’s highest award for scientific achievement.
Transmission dwell?