Polystyrene-Polydimethylsiloxane Diblock-Copolymer

[JWB]

New armor or vaporware?

 

http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/super-material-stop-speeding-bullet-181133971--abc-news-tech.html

 

Researchers at a Rice University lab are researching technology that that could potentially stop a 9-millimeter bullet and seal the entryway behind it - an advance that may have huge implications for ballistic protection for soldiers, as well as other uses.

[Guest Jason L]

That might just be the worst written-MSM science article in the entire history of the world. Who is this "scientist Thomas" person?

 

Phase transitions to weaker stuff (a liquid being the worst because it cannot support deviatoric stresses) generally make a material completely unsuitable for armour design by any metric.

[Nian]

Why would you post the ABC article when it links to the source, and that links to the journal article?

[Guest Jason L]

Why would you post the ABC article when it links to the source, and that links to the journal article?

 

I still cannot get the fulltext article even through institutional access.......