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.

The armor fragments that archaeologists may be from a mail shirt that might have had up to 150,000 rings, according to the news release. Some of the rings from the armor fragment. Rolf Warming ...

Jan 22, 2025: Reimagining chain mail: 3D architected materials that adapt and protect (w/video) (Nanowerk News) Experiments from the Caltech lab of Chiara Daraio, G. Bradford Jones Professor of ...

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