In an article in May in Advanced Materials, researchers gave their recipe for infusing a T-shirt with boron carbide, the main component of bulletproof vests. Dip a cotton T-shirt in a boron-nickel solution, and put it in a furnace heated to 1,160°C, and you have a hybrid textile of boron-carbide nanowire and carbon-microfiber — a flexible shirt reinforced with the third-hardest material on the planet.
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