Interesting Engineering on MSN12d
US creates strongest-ever armor material with 100 trillion bonds per cm²
The first-ever 2D polymer with mechanically interlocked bonds developed in the US shows high flexibility and strength.
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21st-century chainmail uses molecular instead of metallic links
In what they're calling the "highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved," researchers created a super-strong flexible ...
Scientists Invented Molecular ‘Chainmail’ That’s Way Stronger Than Kevlar
Researchers at Duke University then added the ‘chainmail’ to a material known as Ultem, which is in the same family as Kevlar ...
Computational chemistry method can wring more information out of electronic structure calculations
Back in the old days—the really old days—the task of designing materials was laborious. Investigators, over the course of ...
Microsoft Team Uses Diffusion Model For Materials Science
Microsoft researchers report that when the system was given over 608,000 stable materials from databases, it was able to ...
Scientists Uncover Structure of Critical Component in Deadly Nipah Virus
Scientists at Harvard Medical School and Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine have mapped a critical ...