Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉
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100 trillion barry bonds
At least it’s not 100 trillion James Bonds.
Not if Hank Scorpio has anything to say about it.
I'll be eager to know what the results will be about it's resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.
Currently, garbage. They used it to reinforce a polymer to go from a strength of 50 MPa to 70 MPa. Kevlar is 10x stronger, commercially scaled, and cheap
Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that DNA is not a particularly effective armor.
China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can't copy it.