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Scientists Turn T-Shirts Into Body Armor

Posted by timothy on from the will-stick-with-the-regular-kind-for-now dept.

separsons writes "Scientists at the University of South Carolina recently transformed ordinary T-shirts into bulletproof armor. By splicing cotton with boron, the third hardest material on the planet, scientists created a shirt that was super elastic but also strong enough to deflect bullets. Xiaodong Li, lead researcher on the project, says the same tech may eventually be used to create lightweight, fuel-efficient cars and aircrafts."

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  1. Re:+5 T-Shirt of Nerding by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    +5 funny as this is the funniest comment I've ever read on /. (:

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  2. Re:How elastic? by wisnoskij · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, t-shirt gets inside of you.

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  3. Re:How elastic? by AK+Marc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Except it is corn starch, not corn flour. So it should be +1 informative and -1 wrong. Unfortunately, there is no "factually incorrect" mod, so +5 interesting it is...

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