Military Develops Liquid Body Armor

Posted by simoniker on Friday April 23, 2004 @10:07AM from the wet-n-wild dept.

kai5263499 writes "Military.com has an article about a new liquid body armor the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed. According to Dr. Eric Wetzel, the project coordinator: 'The key component of liquid armor is a shear thickening fluid. STF is composed of hard particles suspended in a liquid. The liquid, polyethylene glycol, is non-toxic, and can withstand a wide range of temperatures. Hard, nano-particles of silica are the other components of STF. This combination of flowable and hard components results in a material with unusual properties'."

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So it's a non-newtonian fluid by swagr · 2004-04-23 10:15 · Score: 2, Redundant

Like silly-putty or cornstarch and water.

It's actually surprising no-one has figured this out sooner. (or maybe the idea has been around a long time but the perfect materials were the key).

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