Body armour made from “silksteel” is being developed — but this apparently cutting-edge idea is centuries old.
scientists are reported to be developing body armour using the silk from genetically modified silkworms. The researchers modified the genes of silkworms to make them produce spider silk instead of their own silk.
In one of these little-known writings, unassumingly entitled “Plan for a military manufacturing process”, Leibniz sought to identify a material suitable for making a lightweight, flexible, bulletproof fabric. He briefly considered metal wires, layered metal sheets, andWhereas Goodfellow had observed the impenetrability of silk by bullets, Leibniz never had.
He realised that while such a sheet could not easily be pierced, due to the tightly-woven silk in the cocoons, it would be prone to tearing where one cocoon met the next.
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