…and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people
You mispronounced promote American interests.
America bad
I can’t wait to find out how toxic this is.
Good news, it’s completely non toxic.
Bad news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot.
The pentagon will now take your whole paycheck.
Thank you for your support, patriot.
The article says the process is scalable.
They will make it into a mandatory dress uniform for school children.
hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails
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.
Why don’t they just use diamond, the hardest metal?
Hardness isn’t the best thing to have in armor. In fact, extreme hardness means extreme brittleness.
Tensile strength is more desirable in armor. That’s the sort of strength that a string or rope, or Kevlar will have.
Those can stretch a bit before breaking.
Kevlar will stretch a bit when catching a bullet, this does a few things, but importantly it slows the bullet before stopping it.
So this new material will likely show extreme tensile strength rather than hardness.
