{"id":135290,"date":"2022-02-06T16:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/3d-printed-nanomaterial-could-replace-kevlar-and-steel-for-bulletproof-armor"},"modified":"2022-02-06T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T00:22:35","slug":"3d-printed-nanomaterial-could-replace-kevlar-and-steel-for-bulletproof-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/3d-printed-nanomaterial-could-replace-kevlar-and-steel-for-bulletproof-armor","title":{"rendered":"3D printed nanomaterial could replace kevlar and steel for bulletproof armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-nanomaterial-could-replace-kevlar-and-steel-for-bulletproof-armor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/isn.mit.edu\/\">Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies<\/a> (ISN), made up of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mit.edu\/\">MIT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/\">Caltech<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ethz.ch\/en.html\">ETH Zurich<\/a> and the US <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arl.army.mil\/\">Army Research Lab,<\/a> has used 3D printing technology at the nanoscale to form a material that is reportedly more effective at stopping a projectile than Kevlar or steel.<\/p>\n<p>Thinner than a single human hair, the material is made from tiny carbon struts that form interconnected tetrakaidecahedrons \u2013 structures with 14 faces \u2013 that are fabricated via two-photon lithography.<\/p>\n<p>According to the team, the nano-architected material could potentially replace kevlar for a wide array of bulletproof protective gear used by the armed forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN), made up of the MIT, Caltech, ETH Zurich and the US Army Research Lab, has used 3D printing technology at the nanoscale to form a material that is reportedly more effective at stopping a projectile than Kevlar or steel. Thinner than a single human hair, the material is made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135290","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\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}