though their basic form is known to us through the millennia-old manufacture of chain mail: small metal rings linked together to form a mesh, most often used as a flexible form of armor.

Tatum even managed a pretty impressive if labored dunk in a full set of chain mail armor created to "test the limits" of the former Blue Devil's posterization skills. Now we know that even in an ...

PAMs are not found in nature, though their basic form is known to us through the millennia-old manufacture of chain mail: small metal rings linked together to form a mesh, most often used as a ...

Imagine armor as light as fabric yet stronger than steel, built from materials that link together like molecular chainmail. Scientists may have just taken the first step toward making it a reality.

Catenanes -- materials made of interlocking molecules, similar to medieval chain mail -- have proved laborious ... and resilience are needed -- in armor, airplanes or clothing.