Posted on 12/27/2017 7:36:05 AM PST by Lazamataz
IAMOND-HARD ARMOR The media tends to depict bullet-proof armor as something that’s thick and heavier than regular clothes. Despite being for bodily protection, the added bulk of that armor might restrict a person’s movements. But scientists at the City University of New York’s Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) have found that diamond-hard armor doesn’t need to be thick. The key to less-bulky protection is graphene, a tightly-packed layer of bonded carbon atoms one million times thinner than a piece of paper.
The researchers discovered that two layers of graphene stacked on top of one another can temporarily become as hard as diamond — and just as impenetrable — when struck by, say, a bullet. The hardening of the new material, called diamene, only happens when exactly two sheets of graphene are layered together, according to the study published in Nature Nanotechnology. When more sheets were added, the hardening effect didn’t happen.
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A little birdie told me you have a few nitrocellulose burning/projectile weapons you wont be needing anymore........will you sell them to me for cheap now that we are in the future and all......I am sure we can work out a deal Laz.
If it becomes diamond hard, I infer from that that it also becomes rigid, meaning the force would be spread out to the entire surface of the body armor plate, as though your body armor was a steel plate.
You may be correct. Take aircraft construction for example. Right now carbon fiber is quickly becoming the material of choice for bodies and empennages. I would think a composite material consisting of alternating layers of graphene and carbon fiber would be thinner and therefore lighter yet have the same level of strength as all carbon fiber construction. The weight savings would be significant.
Sorry Laz, the kinetic energy of a high velocity projectile will just push the diamond hard .22 inch dot through your body into the other side of your “armor”.
lol
That's like the old George Carlin line about his classmates at Catholic School...asking the priest whether God could make a stone so big that He Himself couldn't lift it.
.... until they discover that graphene in the environment causes the Woody Tufted Brown Throatwarbler to lay thinner eggs.
Absolutely. And bridges and roads. Graphene will mean the end of potholes, one way or the other.
But that’s only scratching the surface.
The electronic and optical potential of graphene is at least as exciting as are it’s mechanical and structural properties.
See the brilliant post 21
Autocorrect inserted a spurious apostrophe there.
Liquid body armor has been around for some time- shear thickening fluid (STF):
https://www.thebalance.com/liquid-body-armor-3331922
But it still hurts like hell even if the bullet does not penetrate.
Brilliant!
Why do I suspect that “GRAPHENE” is a word I’m going to be very sick of hearing about soon?
They won't have to even do that.
Graphene is CARBON and CARBON is already a NO-NO.
So. There goes the argument against having 30 round magazines. As in when the deer turn against us.
Like being punched with a screwdriver.
“When hard, this same stuff would invisibly slice through your body long before you could ever realize it.”
I read that science fiction story, too.
Don’t forget the “karathands”, gloves made of the same material that instantly harden on impact. Oh, and the “skyhook” elevator cables to orbiting space stations.
-"...all we're asking for is some 'common sense' Graphene laws...for the children don't you know..."
Sharp stuff—very sharp.
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