{"id":33360,"date":"2020-02-04T20:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=33360"},"modified":"2020-02-04T20:03:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:03:38","slug":"33360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=33360","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

One Step Closer to a Batsuit for Soldiers<\/a><\/p>\n

If they name it Nemourlon, then add it onto a powered exosuit………..<\/p>\n

Researchers announce new military funding in search for body armor skin that could be 300 times stronger than anything we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n

In Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>Batman Begins<\/em>, there\u2019s a scene where inventor Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman, explains that Wayne Enterprises has created a prototype body armor for the\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0infantry that\u2019s as light as kevlar but bullet and knife proof. Bruce Wayne asks why it never went into production. \u201cThe bean counters figured a soldier\u2019s life wasn\u2019t worth the 300 grand,\u201d Fox\u00a0replies.<\/p>\n

In real life, and with Defense Department money, researchers from Florida Atlantic University, or\u00a0FAU<\/span>, are using advanced polymers and carbon nanotubes to engineer a new type of body fabric that could eventually prove to be 300 times as strong as today\u2019s state of the art, but just as\u00a0light.<\/p>\n

Hassan Mahfuz<\/a>, the lead investigator on the project at\u00a0FAU<\/span>, says that \u201cthe whole idea is to absorb the energy and be able to dissipate very quickly so it doesn\u2019t concentrate,\u201d and pierce the fabric and the person inside of\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

How do you do that? As Mahfuz and several colleagues from different institutions point out in\u00a0this paper<\/a>, you need to create an entirely new type of treatment for nylon fabric, a hybrid mixture of a polymer that Mahfuz describes as similar to Ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene and carbon nanotubes. The former\u00a0has been around since the 1950s,<\/a>\u00a0the latter was only discovered in 1991. They\u2019re hollow cylinders of carbon molecules, a product of nanotechnology, or the manipulation of objects at a billionth of a meter in\u00a0size.<\/p>\n

Carbon nanotubes are so strong and light (roughly 100 times stronger than steel but one-sixth of the weight) that researchers have proposed they may play a role in\u00a0super springs<\/a>,\u00a0drug delivery<\/a>, and future\u00a0hypersonic weapons<\/a>. Getting them to interact with ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene will be key to realizing ever higher levels of\u00a0strength.<\/p>\n

The Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office has provided about $569,000 in funding for the effort according to\u00a0a release<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday from the\u00a0University.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first attempt is to increase [strength] by 25 percent\u201d above the current state of the art within a year, said Mahfuz, who expressed confidence that he would eventually reach a 300 percent strength increase but couldn\u2019t speculate on the timing, since research is ongoing. \u201cAs we publish, we\u2019ll know,\u201d he\u00a0said<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One Step Closer to a Batsuit for Soldiers If they name it Nemourlon, then add it onto a powered exosuit……….. Researchers announce new military funding in search for body armor skin that could be 300 times stronger than anything we\u2019ve seen before. In Christopher Nolan\u2019s\u00a0Batman Begins, there\u2019s a scene where inventor Lucius Fox, played by … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33370,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33360\/revisions\/33370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}