{"id":104521,"date":"2020-03-31T04:15:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/one-step-closer-to-a-batsuit-for-soldiers"},"modified":"2020-03-31T04:18:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T11:18:39","slug":"one-step-closer-to-a-batsuit-for-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/one-step-closer-to-a-batsuit-for-soldiers","title":{"rendered":"One Step Closer to a Batsuit for Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/one-step-closer-to-a-batsuit-for-soldiers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u201e.o carbon nanotube suit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers announce new military funding in search for body armor skin that could be 300 percent stronger than anything we\u2019ve seen before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Christopher Nolan\u2019s <\/strong><em>Batman Begins<\/em>, there\u2019s a scene where inventor Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman, explains that Wayne Enterprises has created a prototype body armor for the U.S. infantry that\u2019s as light as Kevlar but bullet- and knife-proof. Bruce Wayne asks why it never went into production. \u201cThe bean counters figured a soldier\u2019s life wasn\u2019t worth the 300 grand,\u201d Fox replies.<\/p>\n<p>In real life, and with Defense Department money, researchers from Florida Atlantic University, or FAU, are using advanced polymers and carbon nanotubes to engineer a new type of body fabric that could prove 300 percent as strong as today\u2019s state of the art, but just as light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O\u201e.o carbon nanotube suit. Researchers announce new military funding in search for body armor skin that could be 300 percent stronger than anything we\u2019ve seen before. In Christopher Nolan\u2019s Batman Begins, there\u2019s a scene where inventor Lucius Fox, played by Morgan Freeman, explains that Wayne Enterprises has created a prototype body armor for the U.S. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,2008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nanotechnology","category-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104522,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104521\/revisions\/104522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}