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Two Win Nobel for Work on Ultra-Thin Material
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| October 5, 2010
| DENNIS OVERBYE
Posted on 10/05/2010 6:56:31 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
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To: airborne
Might make for some excellent body armor.Here comes Iron Man for real.
To: aruanan
The point is the stuff’s extremely strong and light. Glue a few thousand sheets together and you’d have a very thin penetration plate far better than any of the ceramics used now. And it would only weigh about as much as the glue.
To: antiRepublicrat
The point is the stuff’s extremely strong and light. Glue a few thousand sheets together and you’d have a very thin penetration plate far better than any of the ceramics used now. And it would only weigh about as much as the glue.
Be interesting to see if one could make a man-powered ornithopter with it.
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