Contact: Janet Lathrop
jlathrop@admin.umass.edu
413-545-0444
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Caption: Military uniforms of the future may offer a new layer of critical protection to a highly breathable, reversible new nanotube-based material being developed by research by teams at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and other institutions.
Credit: Jacqueline McBride, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
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