Flexible armor (IMAGE)
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A steel particle is shown piercing through the nanofibrous hydrogel and exiting at a reduced velocity. The difference in velocity before and after gave the researchers a direct measurement of the material's impact resistance, or the amount of energy it can absorb.
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Courtesy of Jiahua Ni, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao, et al
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