Graphene Performs Well at the Shooting Range (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Graphene Performs Well at the Shooting Range (1 of 4)

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Rice University scientists fired microbullets at supersonic speeds in experiments that show graphene is 10 times better than steel at absorbing the energy of a penetrating projectile. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 28 2014 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Jae-Hwang Lee at Rice University in Houston, TX, and colleagues was titled, "Dynamic mechanical behavior of multilayer graphene via supersonic projectile penetration."

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[Credit: Jae-Hwang Lee]

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