Interesting....
I saw a video of this stuff and it’s pretty neat. Who wants to volunteer to put on a vest and test it out? :>} Bullet “proof” vest don’t protect you from head shots.
But if you spill it on the floor it becomes a bad-guy assassin cop.
Thanks for the article and science news site.
The Russians put a bug inside the Polish lab that invented the material. Here’s what they heard:
“Engineer 1: Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid. So is toothpaste.
Engineer 2: Good. I’m using that stuff.
Engineer 3: Hey, can you point this .50 cal Desert Eagle at my chest and pull the trigger while I test this thing?”
Karatands
For all you older Sci-fi fans out there.
I remember hearing about this years back. The minor problem is, if I recall correctly, once it’s hit, it goes solid and stays solid. So, if you got hit by one or two impacts, that’s not a problem. But if you got lots of impacts or one big impact, the body armor would become inflexible.
Like the corn starch/ water experiment. Neat.
I believe this technology exists for quite some time already, they aren’t first who have come with it.
Yet I haven’t seen any end product utilizing it.
There are a number of "non-Newtonian fluids" that exhibit this behavior. One, polydimethylsiloxane, is (or was) the main ingredient of Silly Putty. It was heavily researched as a possible element of for a "lock-up" transmission during the energy crisis of the 1970s.
I don't think the use of these compounds for body armor is a new idea.
I wonder how it works with aimed bullets.
It’s an Oobleck.
Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid; it has properties of both liquids and solids. You can slowly dip your hand into it like a liquid, but if you squeeze the oobleck or punch it, it will feel solid.
Just like Silly Putty, and, that stuff the guys were using in the episode of Big Bang with the speaker.
Shear Thickening Fluid for daily wear! The STF Uniform makes sense. Anyone who didagrees can STFU.
“The institute is being tight-lipped on what exactly their fluid is made of”
I’m thinking it’s probably just the optically pure L-isomer form of the ordinarily racemic Flubber mixture purified via stereochemistry separation techniques. In other words, it’s probably just L-Flubber.
use it but have a layer of Kevlar over it as well-
They’ve got a heated version called SHTF.
Pretty cool concept. I’m reminded of a similar idea from the opening scene in “Final Fantasy” where Marines jump out of a drop ship onto a previously deployed gas layer on the ground which cushions their fall.
Don’t know about bullets, but I saw a baseball player get drilled in the ribs with a fastball the other day and I wonder if that might be a good application.