Bulletproof vests,more accurately known as bullet-resistant vests, are essential in modern defense, but how much do you ...

In the search for a better material for bullet-proof vests, researchers are turning to graphene, which they say works twice as well as the high-tech fabrics currently utilized in body armor for ...

Graphene, the wonder material that should rejuvenate almost every sphere of science and technology in the next decade or so, ... bulletproof armor. US researchers have found that, ...

A recent breakthrough for graphene applications is in materials for bulletproof vests developed by combining carbon nanotubes with graphene. In 2012, researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW ...

Graphene also achieves this impressive range of characteristics while being incredibly lightweight, which is why scientists began to wonder whether it would make a good addition to body armor.

Recent tests suggest that pure graphene performs twice as well as the fabric currently used in bulletproof vests, making it an ideal armour for soldiers and police. Graphene is a sheet of single ...

The "wonder material" graphene could be used to make bulletproof armour. US researchers carried out miniature ballistic tests by firing tiny silica spheres at sheets of graphene. In Science ...

The result means that graphene might be ideal for making bullet-proof vests and other types of armour, he says. “It might even be used in futuristic applications such as coatings for satellites and ...

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Key for potential applications of graphene in body armour, though, was their ability to spread kinetic energy quickly and across a wide area. The deadly, penetrative quality of a bullet owes to the ...