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Modern bulletproof vests remain the same disadvantages – heavy weight and dimensions. That’s why the armor from graphene, lightweight and heavy-duty, can revolutionize a niche overalls for military and security officers.
A team of researchers led by Elisa Riedo (Eliza Rideau – professors at City University of New York) suggested use graphene to represent body armor that represents the strongest and lightest material in the world. Graphene Tighter steel, while its fantastic lightness is determined first the turn of the fact that it is a material of crystalline lattices of hexagonal structure – only one atom thick carbon.
However, graphene itself is very plastic, how can it save a man from a bullet? American scientists created their material on graphene-based – a diamine that can instantly become as strong as diamond and as viscous as steel. This effect occurs as times upon impact and lasts a very short time, so in the case of hitting a bullet – it will simply be discarded, and the person protected with such a fabric, it won’t even feel anything – isn’t it ideal bulletproof vest? Lightweight, soft and at the same time completely protecting human from any bullet.
Graphene Sandwich – Fantastic Diamine
Diamine consists of two layers of graphene at a relatively cheap silicon carbide substrate, it looks like a foil, that’s just does not make any metal sounds. Such a lining can hem to any garment, making it bulletproof.
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The idea of creating a graphene sandwich proposed by Angelo Bongiorno (Angelo Bognorno) – Assistant Professor at the University where Eliza Works Rideau. It was he who developed the computer model, on the basis of which scientists led by Elisa Riedo in practice created a two-layer heavy-duty material, instantly and briefly hardening from hit.
So, is a fantastic body armor created? It turns out It’s too early to rejoice in the military and law enforcement officers. The thing is that graphene is still too expensive material, although about that this is the material of the future, the conversation has been going on for several years. So on the horse, as they say, will not be the one who creates today graphene-based amazing things (including bulletproof clothing), and the one who makes graphene himself cheap and easily accessible …
