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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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.

Right now, most military armor is made out of Kevlar, which Bishop says only stops bullets similar to 9mm rounds. It's also substantially heavier. Kevlar body armor systems can weigh more than ...

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 ...

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Stephanie Kwolek, a DuPont chemist who invented the synthetic fibers used in Kevlar body armor, has died at the age of 90, her colleagues said Friday. A fellow chemist told The Associated Press ...

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 ...