This Ultra-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets by Hardening Like a Diamond

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This Ultra-Thin Material Can Stop Bullets by Hardening Like a Diamond

    December 30, 2017

by Paul Ratner
 
CUNY researchers transformed the honeycombed graphene into the diamond-like material diamene.  Credit: Ella Maru Studio

Researchers from The City University of New York (CUNY) have figured out that if you stack two layers of graphene, the new material it can harden to a diamond-like consistency upon impact. Where is that quality useful? In bullet-proof armor, which tends to be quite heavy, but doesn’t have to be if this graphene-based material is employed.

Graphene, the world’s strongest material, is made up of carbon atoms that are linked together in a honeycomb pattern. It can be produced in one-atom-thick sheets.

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/this-ultra-thin-material-can-stop-bullets-by-hardening-like-a-diamond

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"What’s curious, the effect of hardening only takes place when two sheets of graphene are used. It can’t be any more or less. "

So put a graphene coating on bullets to defeat this armor.