Boron carbide is one of the hardest material on Earth , used by the military in body armor . regrettably it ’s too heavy for daily clothing . Until now . pill pusher discovered how to turn cotton fibers to boron carbide , create armour from deoxythymidine monophosphate - shirts .
Though the process is still experimental , it could lead to passing pliant , warm body armor that weigh far less than the current models .
According to Chemistry World :
In the research , squares were cut from 100 per cent cotton T - shirts and soak in a solution of boron pulverisation and a nickel - found accelerator , before being heated to around 1100ºC for four hours under a flow of argon [ to prevent the material from ] combustion . ‘ Cotton fibres have lots of small pores which can be used to snare the gunpowder , ’ [ lead researcher Xiaodong ] Li explains . ‘ During the process the cotton vulcanized fiber change to carbon paper fibres – which react with the boron pulverisation , produce [ boron carbide ] . ’
The best part ? When scientist change the t - shirt into armour , it operate from lily-white to nigrify . Now that ’s what I call totally metallic element .
viaChemistry World[spotted onPopSci ]
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