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Nanotubes to knit bulletproof armour
Carbon nanotubes are being probed to see if they are the world's most bulletproof materials.

2007-11-06 01:05:00


Australian researchers Professor Liangchi Zhang and Dr Kausala Mylvaganam from the University of Sydney [profile] report on the bullet-bouncing ability of carbon nanotubes in the current issue of the journal Nanotechnology.

"The nanotube absorbs energy from the bullet and the bullet speed reduces," says Zhang, an engineer with the university's Centre for Advanced Materials Technology.

"Then the nanotube tries to recover elastically, and transfer back the energy to the bullet."

Most bulletproof materials are made of ultra high-strength polymers like Kevlar, Twaron or Dyneema fibres.


http://www.nanotechnology.com/news/?id=11638