Phys.org December 13, 2022
Extreme energy dissipating materials are essential for a range of applications, in the military, law enforcement, aerospace industry to name a few. Researchers in the UK have created and patented a new shock-absorbing material that could revolutionize both the defense and planetary science sectors. They incorporated a recombinant form of the mechanosensitive protein talin into a monomeric unit and crosslinked, resulting in the production of a talin shock absorbing material (TSAM). When subjected to 1.5 km/s supersonic shots, TSAMs were shown not only to absorb the impact, but to capture/preserve the projectile. According to the researchers TSAMs is the first reported protein material to achieve this…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLEÂ
The design concept of TSAM. Credit: BioRxiv, Posted November 29, 2022.Â