You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: Do you know about GRAPHENE???
That is truly interesting!!! If you know, up to how large a caliber bullet can this material effectively protect against?? I think it's great... Is it expensive to manufacture this material?
from my understanding it is 10x stronger than steel
Scientists have yet to figure out a way to mass produce sheets of graphene in large sizes, thus, for this experiment, the researchers confined their efforts to a very small scale. Their firing range consisted of using a laser to vaporize gold filaments to serve as the gunpowder. The explosion pushed micron-sized glass bullets at graphene targets—10 to 100 sheets placed together to form a mat—at speeds up to 6,700 mph (approximately a third of the speed of a real bullet fired from an M16 machine gun). Electron microscopy was used to measure how well the graphene sheets absorbed the impact.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2014-11-graphene-bullet.html#jCp
@johnnythenap for one flake of graphene back in 2014 could cost thousands of dollars but in the future it could be as cheap as silicon to produce
I just hope... Whatever it is, AND whenever it can be utilized on a mass scale, nationally, I think more infantry & law-enforcement will be more confident... Thus, more effective.
yes most definitely with the way things have gone in the past i welcome the future technology on every scale.