Thursday, April 15, 2010
Bullet Proof T-Shirts
Scientests from the Universty of South Carolina have found away to make regular t-shirts bullet proof. This sounds bizarre, and when first reading it I thought it was one of those joke websites but they seem pretty serious. The way they make the shirts bullet proof is that they split the carbons of the t-shirt and incorporate Boran, which is the third hardest material on the planet. This makes the shirt lightweight but also can stop bullets, this is what the hull of most tanks are made from. The normal Carbon Boran is brittle and is rough and wouldn't give with the smoothness of most t-shirts, this has been changed by incorporated nano wires, which would make the shirt the same looseness, the gives extra flexibility and strength to the wires in the carbon
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1 comment:
Cool. Where can I purchase such a high tech tee?
Don't forget to get your speech related posts up on your blog.
SD
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