…and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people
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I don’t know if this will actually pan out the way that they imply in the title; armor needs to have a lot of different characteristics in order to be practical. As in, resistance to heat and cold, resistance to acids, alkalines, petroleum distillates, salts, UV, and oxygen, and also resist deformation. Multiple materials have displays significant promise for armor, but had a very short lifespan in real-word conditions. For instance, there was a material trademarked as Zylon that was supposed to be better than Kevlar, and it was used extensively by Second Chance (a body armor company); several cops were killed when their armor failed, and the armor failed because of exposure to sweat and ambient heat.
Yeah, this is a super cool development, but remember that everything that comes out at this stage is hype.
Yes… that’s why they use the word “could”. This is how research works and what reasonable science reporting looks like. There were no promises or wild claims made in the article.
Layer it with Kevlar and good?
It really depends on whether it can be made to meet all the other criteria required for armor. I think that it’s too early to make any good predictions.
So this is what John Wick had in his suit
I’ll be eager to know what the results will be about it’s resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.
Now this is a technology post!
I don’t know if I’d call materials science technology, exactly, but it’s certainly more on topic than “business but at a tech company” posts.
Of course material science is technology lol
Wow what a stupid comment. Materials science is technology.
Cutting edge materials science and manufacturing is 100% technology.
I only acknowledge technological advancements made in writing utensils. Keyboards and Typewriters do NOT count. So don’t even get me started
Yeah yeah we get it, everyone is wrong but you and all that.
That’s ludicrous, because that’s true for me and not them.
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Surely I can’t be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
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Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉
Please, could we move to Known Space?
Could this be used to make a space elevator?
I think I remember reading that a structure strong enough would have to be wider than the earth
No.
What about a space escalator?
Escalator is smart, because if it breaks, you can still walk to space.
I heard it was for lifts only
It would probably be strong enough, but not viable to manufacture.
Extreme doubt on strong enough. The author of this article barely understands the words they are using. Cool it strain hardens, so do so many other materials. Cool it’s tough like many other materials. Wow it has more links than others. No actual numbers about toughness, yield, ultimate strength, cycle limits, etc. It’s great research, but it absolutely isn’t going to magically solve the space elevator issue.
“the manufacturing process of the 2D polymer is highly scalable”
First line of the article
Scalability is not viability.
Ok but there’s ‘high’ and then there’s ‘low earth orbit’.
That’s what my dispensary tells me too
My man!
China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can’t copy it.
Of course it’s plastic.
it’s very lightweight though, so it could reduce plastic usage by mass, by reinforcing plastic/other materials.
There’s also no reason why polymers need to be made out of oil: See PLA, cellophane, viscose, etc.
Whether or not it’s plastic isn’t as big an issue as whether or not it’s biodegradable within a realistic timeframe.
everything is degradable with enough heat
I’m sure it will mix well with the depleted uranium smoke the targeted crew will already be breathing.
Microplastic, even
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