Saturday, April 4, 2015

Bulletproof graphene makes ultra-strong body armor

 
That title, from a New Scientist article, might be over-selling things at this stage of development.
Lee and colleagues ... used a laser pulse to superheat gold filaments until they vaporised, acting like gunpowder to fire a micrometre-size glass bullet into 10 to 100 sheets of graphene at 3 kilometres per second – about three times the speed of a bullet fired from an M16 rifle.
That's pretty far from actually having a product in development.

It's sort of like saying that I can take a few steps in my back yard and announcing that I've walked on the moon.

Well, maybe that's a little exaggeration because graphene is amazing stuff.

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