Hybridizing Shear-Stiffening Gel and Chemically-Strengthened Ultrathin Glass Sheets for Flexible Impact-Resistant Armor.

ABSTRACT: Traditional anti-impact armors and shields are normally made of stiff and hard materials and therefore deficient in flexibility. This greatly limits their applications in protecting objects with complex geometries or significant deformability. Flexible armors can be developed with the application of hard platelets and soft materials, but the lower rigidity of the flexible armors renders them incapable of providing sufficient resistance against impact attacks. To address the inherent conflict between flexibility and impact resistance in traditional armors, here, a composite is developed by hybridizing a shear-stiffening gel as the matrix and chemically-strengthened ultrathin glass sheets (CSGS) as the reinforcement. The resulting laminate, termed PCCL, exhibits both high flexibility and hig

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11434028 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature