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Chain mail fabric stiffens under pressure

12 Sep 2021
New chain mail fabric
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)
Physicists have designed a chain mail fabric that is easily foldable in normal conditions but become

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Sam Jarman is a science writer based in the UK
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