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* 12:23 14 March 2002 by Eugenie Samuel
A new Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies was created on Wednesday at MIT, with a US Army grant of $50 million over five years. The institute has a remit to produce fabrics that can morph to improve camouflage, stiffen to provide splints for broken limbs and store energy that can be tapped later to increase the wearer’s strength.
Ned Thomas of MIT’s Department of Materials Science says many existing nanotechnologies already have the potential to be scaled up into full suits of armour. “Our goal is to help greatly enhance the protection and survival of the infantry soldier using nanoscience,” he says.
One example could be weaving fabrics out of nanoscale hollow fibres that Thomas hopes to fill with an existing technology called a ferrofluid. Ferrofluids contain magnetic particles that can be made to align in rows forming a stiff gel when exposed to an external magnetic field. more>>>
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