An Israeli company has recently tested one of the most shock-resistant materials known to man. Five times stronger than steel and at least twice as strong as any impact-resistant material currently in use as protective gear, the new nano-based material is on its way to becoming the armor of the future.
Prof. Yan Qiu Zhu of the School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham, England, a sample of the ApNano material was subjected to severe shocks generated by a steel projectile traveling at velocities of up to 1.5 km/second. The material withstood the shock pressures generated by the impacts of up to 250 tons per square centimeter. This is approximately equivalent to dropping four diesel locomotives onto an area the size of one’s fingernail.
Amazing indeed. But I guess its easy to see where its all going! If you consider the other side of this development, we now need bigger guns, more of the unconventional kind - lazers, biological weapons, pulse guns etc.. The poor and hungry need to wait a bit longer, the world has more pressing matters to hanle today!
And Alfred Nobel thought dynamite would stop wars! Yeah Right!
http://www.isracast.com/tech_news/091205_tech.htm
