{"id":14199,"date":"2004-04-28T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-28T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/28\/liquid-armor\/"},"modified":"2004-04-28T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2004-04-28T11:11:00","slug":"liquid-armor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/28\/liquid-armor\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid Armor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Military.com<\/i> reports on a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/NewsContent\/0,13319,usa3_042104.00.html?ESRC=dod.nl\" target=\"_blank\">&ldquo;liquid body armor&rdquo; additive for Kevlar vests<\/a>.  The research centers on polyethylene glycol, a &ldquo;shear thickening&rdquo; fluid (STF) with unique properties:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Polyethylene glycol is] non-toxic, and can withstand a wide range of temperatures. Hard, nano-particles of silica are the other components of STF. This combination of flowable and hard components results in a material with unusual properties.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;During normal handling, the STF is very deformable and flows like a liquid. However, once a bullet or frag hits the vest, it transitions to a rigid material, which prevents the projectile from penetrating the soldier&rsquo;s body,&rdquo; said Dr. Eric Wetzel, a mechanical engineer from the Weapons and Materials Research Directorate who heads the project team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pretty amazing stuff&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-108307757021859392?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military.com reports on a new &ldquo;liquid body armor&rdquo; additive for Kevlar vests. The research centers on polyethylene glycol, a &ldquo;shear thickening&rdquo; fluid (STF) with unique properties: [Polyethylene glycol is] non-toxic, and can withstand a wide range of temperatures. Hard, nano-particles of silica are the other components of STF. This combination of flowable and hard components &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/28\/liquid-armor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liquid Armor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}