{"id":203940,"date":"2025-01-17T06:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-chainmail-like-material-could-be-the-future-of-armor"},"modified":"2025-01-17T06:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:31:07","slug":"new-chainmail-like-material-could-be-the-future-of-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/new-chainmail-like-material-could-be-the-future-of-armor","title":{"rendered":"New chainmail-like material could be the future of armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-chainmail-like-material-could-be-the-future-of-armor2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material.<\/p>\n<p>Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, the nanoscale material exhibits exceptional flexibility and strength. With further work, it holds promise for use in high-performance, light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and tough materials.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing on Jan. 17 in the journal <i>Science<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.ads4968\" target=\"_blank\">the study<\/a> marks several firsts for the field. Not only is it the first 2D mechanically interlocked <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/polymer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">polymer<\/a>, but the novel material also contains 100 trillion mechanical bonds per 1 square centimeter\u2014the highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material. Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, the nanoscale material exhibits exceptional flexibility and strength. With further work, it holds promise for use in high-performance, light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203940","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}