Eric Wetzel of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory and Norman Wagner, professor at the University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials, have worked on armor technology for a decade. One material ...

A Polish firm is the latest to concoct unassuming-looking fluids that harden on impact, making for lighter, more flexible protection on the battlefield and beyond. Leslie Katz led a team that explored ...

May 4 -- Hard, heavy, stiff and bulky is how soldiers and law enforcement officials most often describe their bullet-resistant body armor. And while developers have gone to great lengths to lighten ...

Barth et al. proposed the use of acoustic perturbations to control shear thickening and analyzed how suspension viscosity varies with ultrasound field strength. Their study yielded the first ...

Scientists at a Polish company that produce body armor systems are working to implement a non-Newtonian liquid in their products. The liquid is called Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF). STF does not ...

Researchers are using ultrasonic waves to manipulate the viscosity of shear-thickening materials, turning solids to slush -- and back again. Researchers are using ultrasonic waves to manipulate the ...

Researchers using a high-speed camera have captured the moments a fluid reacts like a solid, through a new method of fluid observation under pressurized conditions. They examined fluids that have a ...

image: For the first time, researchers have been able capture images providing unprecedented details of how particles behave in a liquid suspension when the phenomenon known as shear thickening takes ...