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US makes strongest-ever armor material with 100 trillion bonds/cm² (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be eager to know what the results will be about it's resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.

[–] sm1dger 2 points 11 hours ago

Currently, garbage. They used it to reinforce a polymer to go from a strength of 50 MPa to 70 MPa. Kevlar is 10x stronger, commercially scaled, and cheap