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US makes strongest-ever armor material with 100 trillion bonds/cm² (interestingengineering.com)
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[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 months ago

Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that DNA is not a particularly effective armor.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Why don't they just use diamond, the hardest metal?

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

100 trillion barry bonds

[-] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

At least it’s not 100 trillion James Bonds.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Not if Hank Scorpio has anything to say about it.

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