A team of researchers has created a chain mail-inspired smart fabric that's able to become strong and rigid under pressure. The post Chain Mail-Inspired Smart Fabric Turns Rigid Under Pressure ...

Smart fabric: Yifan Wang bending the nylon chain mail, encased in a plastic envelope and vacuum-packed, which makes it 25 times stiffer than when under ambient conditions. (Courtesy: NTU Singapore) ...

New smart fabrics are created based on the structured fabric used in various pre-existing materials such as medieval chain mail armor and Kevlar sheets. Some fabrics possess a wide range of unique ...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), United States, have developed a new type of ‘chain mail ...

To protect its spacecraft from the rigors of deep space, a team of NASA engineers is turning to a time-honored — and battle-proven — solution: chain mail. Led by Raul Polit Casillas, whose ...

Chain Mail-Inspired Smart Fabric Turns Rigid Under Pressure. by Matthew Hart. Aug 13 2021 • 9:58 AM. In your day-to-day life, you probably don’t have to dodge and deflect arrows too often.