Tough, Flexible T-shirt that could replace Body Amour.

The invention is about a simple t-shirt was developed tough enough to detect bullets.It combines carbon with boron (one of the hardest material in Earth)

It is started with plain, white T-shirts that were cut into thin strips and dipped into a boron solution. The strips were later removed from the solution and heated in an oven. The heat changes the cotton fibers into carbon fibers, which react with the boron solution and produce boron carbide.They increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt’s cotton with boron – the third hardest material on earth. The result is a lightweight shirt reinforced with boron carbide, the same material used to protect tanks.The result is a fabric that’s lightweight but tougher and stiffer than the original T-shirt, yet flexible enough that it can be bent. That flexibility is an improvement over the heavy boron-carbide plates used in bulletproof vests and body armor.The currently used boron-carbide bulk material is brittle and the boron-carbide nano wires they synthesized keep the same strength and stiffness of the bulk boron carbide but have super-elasticity. They are lightweight and flexible.

The fascinating aspect that blew my mind,is that an ordinary T-shirt could turn to protect those police officers.It could even be used to produce lightweight,fuel-efficient cars and aircrafts.