NANOTECHNOLOGY AND BALLISTICS
November 1st, 2004
BY ALAN OSBORNONE of the first applications of plastics nanotechnology in the field of ballistic materials was shown to delegates at the conference Advanced Technologies in Crime Prevention and Detection organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology in London earlier this month.For years the armour industry has tried without success to overcome the problems of humidity, sweat and flexibility for wearers of bullet-proof garments by using irradiation 13-16 to change the molecular configuration of polymeric materials such as HIPS, Nylon, Kevlar and Zylon and make ...
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