Super strong densified wood at a fraction of the cost of modern plate armor.
Of course it's applications are almost unlimited plus some are working to make it transparent.
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Of course it's applications are almost unlimited plus some are working to make it transparent.
A five-layer, plywoodlike sandwich of densified wood stopped simulated bullets fired into the material—a result Hu and his colleagues suggest could lead to low-cost armor. The material does not protect quite as well as a Kevlar sheet of the same thickness—but it only costs about 5 percent as much, he notes.
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