For example, the traditional Kevlar fabric that would go into soft body armor weighs about 1 pound per square foot, and you need more than one square foot to do the job. But a new kind of Kevlar ...

The liquid can even be pasted between sheets of Kevlar, the body armor standard considered five times stronger than steel -- and transforming it into super armor thinner and about half the weight ...

Kevlar and ceramic body armor can potentially stop a bullet and prevent the death of a soldier, but tends to be bulky and restricts movement. Certain types of armaments can also pierce Kevlar.

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Advanced body armor, made out of bullet-resistant Kevlar and ceramic plates, is likely to play a more critical role in the lives of soldiers engaged in urban warfare on the streets of Baghdad.

The team wants to develop a full suit of fish-scale body armor -- rigid and strong across the torso, more flexible towards the joints -- for the U.S. military that could replace the heavy Kevlar ...

Thanks to its unique chemistry, Kevlar body armor has saved the lives of countless people who were wearing it. In a tweet Sunday morning, the Orlando Police Department applauded the tough fiber ...

The 1960s saw the creation of Kevlar, a carbon aramid that, when tightly woven into flexible fabric was resilient to bullets – the seemingly perfect composition for body armor. While still ...

9b01094). The team, which also included Zengwei Liu, Jing Lyu, and Dan Fang, first prepared a suspension of Kevlar nanofibers by stirring a few grams of the bulk material in dimethyl sulfoxide.

“Soft Armor (Kevlar) is for protection against common ... at a price tag about five times the steel armor.” Unlike other body armor companies, AR500 Armor’s customer base is evenly split ...

I know, I know -- at this point, it's hardly surprising that graphene would make the ideal material for thin and light bulletproof armor. It's still pretty awesome, however, that all of graphene's ...