Animal based armor developed in the USA

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According to "MIC“, The US military managed to synthesize an elastic substance based on Pacific Pacific myxine mucus. Biochemist Josh Kogot and engineer Ryan Kinser from the Naval Surface Warfare Science Center (NSWC, part of the US Navy) successfully synthesized myxin protein, through which these animals turn water into solid mucus.

Animal based armor developed in the USA




As the scientists say, the resulting material has a high elasticity and is ten times stronger than steel. “Myxin mucus is one of the most unique biomaterials known to science. The US Navy will be useful to be armed with a substance that can in a matter of seconds turn water into durable material that can protect ships or people from various dangers, ”said R. Kinser. From the words of D. Kogot, the threads of mucus mixin can be compared in strength with spider silk, and by mechanical qualities they are comparable with Kevlar.



The advantage of mucus myxine is its naturalness and renewability, if necessary, it can be replaced with synthetic materials created on the basis of petroleum products. “Synthetic slime myxine can be used for ballistic protection, fire fighting, ship bottom protection, protection for divers or even as a spray against sharks. The possibilities of this material are endless, our goal is to reproduce protective material for the military on its basis, ”said D. Kogot.
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  1. +5
    26 January 2017 09: 40
    Was Obama's skin used? It’s a pity he didn’t have time to buy a stuffed animal tongue
    1. +8
      26 January 2017 09: 45
      Make no mistake, friend! it's a transparent slime and the skin of the obama is black laughing
      1. +2
        26 January 2017 09: 47
        That is ... Not still lost ... wassat
        Quote: himRa
        Make no mistake, friend! it's a transparent slime and the skin of the obama is black laughing
        1. +7
          26 January 2017 10: 14
          An interesting development, let's see how soon it appears at the Navy ...
          1. +4
            26 January 2017 10: 16
            Hi Pasha, she’s useful not only in the Navy, but what do we have on this front?
            1. +5
              26 January 2017 10: 19
              Victor, welcome! It is possible that similar developments are being carried out in our country or some others in this direction. But for now, it’s silent!
              1. +4
                26 January 2017 12: 39
                Quote: bouncyhunter
                But for now, it’s silent!

                Well, the stump is clear.
                Biochemistry in Russia stands in such a place in the world ....
                So for reference:
                Profits public US biotechnology companies from 1998 to 2007 year increased from xnumx to 65 billion US dollars, research and development costs - with 10 up to 26 billion US dollars.

                The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the largest single agency funding biotechnology research in the United States. Between 2000 and 2008, the NIH annual budget increased from 18 to 29 billion.
                by 2010, according to more accurate estimates, this figure exceeded 100 billion dollars. By 2015, the global volume (at 70% of everything American) of the biotechnology market amounted to over 280 billion dollars and already nowover 12% of sales in the chemical market.

                By 2014, North America, Europe, Japan, and Latin America
                controlled 85% of this market. Moreover, according to estimates by IMS Health,
                North America received 210 billion dollars, Europe - 131, Japan - 54,
                Latin America - 39, Southeast Asia (including China) - 30,
                Eastern Europe - 19, Middle East - 17, Africa - 9, India - 11,
                Australia - 15, CIS - 13 billion dollars
                Threat in 2025 expect income 2 trillion $

                The budget of Russia (ALL) in 2007
                Revenue 7, 781 trillion rubles
                Consumption 5, 987 trillion rubles



                The Russian market for biotechnology products and the production of biopharmaceuticals (proteins, enzymes, antibodies) is the largest in terms of money
                expression. Its volume is, according to expert estimates, from 60 to 90 billion.
                rub. per year, but demand is satisfied mainly through imports.
                According to the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, only about 5% of biotechnological
                substances used in the manufacture of final dosage forms,
                are domestic.



                and the centers for the study of biotechnology, we have the same in abundance
                wink
            2. +1
              26 January 2017 18: 07
              Nothing, like them, already had armor from the web, the cargo dog robot is now slime impenetrable by a bullet, the main thing is that the enemy tremble
          2. +9
            26 January 2017 11: 19
            Now the vile homosexuals of NATO will also become slimy laughing
          3. +4
            26 January 2017 11: 32
            An interesting development, let's see how soon it appears at the Navy ...


            There are no developments. This "discovery", under a hundred years. The announced surnames probably patented another doll and are trying to transfer the payment of patent support to the Navy. I am sure that we will never hear again about "mucus, ten times stronger than steel." America is a country of great discoveries and bright engineering, but for every talent there are a million crooks in search of fame, money, or to satisfy the hunger of schizophrenia. This "biochemist" and "engineer", well, certainly not from talents.
          4. 0
            26 January 2017 13: 25
            Quote: bouncyhunter
            let's see how soon she appears at the Navy ...

            It turns out that we were late. The patent is no longer ours. And yes, I would like to hope for our similar - secret - developments.
    2. +7
      26 January 2017 09: 59
      It's a shame that you can say nothing but jokes about such interesting studies.
      1. +1
        26 January 2017 10: 14
        Well, you say.
      2. +2
        26 January 2017 11: 05
        Quote: Deniska999
        It's a shame that you can say nothing but jokes about such interesting studies.

        What else to say, except for a joke? About the properties of the web, as well as bee honeycombs, it has been known for more than a dozen years. Only, here, with industrial production does not work. So with this mucus - interesting, unexpected, well ... that's all.
  2. +2
    26 January 2017 09: 41
    "Semi-liquid" armor - very interesting ...
  3. +5
    26 January 2017 09: 42
    According to scientists, the resulting material has high elasticity and ten times stronger than steel. successfully synthesized protein myxin, through which these animals turn water into strong mucus.

    Yes already out of the water and ,, stronger than steel ,, laughing
    1. +5
      26 January 2017 10: 51
      Quote: himRa
      According to scientists, the resulting material has high elasticity and ten times stronger than steel. successfully synthesized protein myxin, through which these animals turn water into strong mucus.

      Yes already out of the water and ,, stronger than steel ,, laughing

      What bothers you so much?
      What spider weaves its threads from steel?
      Maybe it will be interesting to you, well, and informative.
      The web is so strong and resilient that with its thickness it is able to stop a flying bee or fly. And if you imagine that it was possible to increase the diameter of the web even to the thickness of a pencil, such a thread could stop a flying plane. This is confirmed by calculations. The strength of the material is known to be measured in units called dernier (1 dernier = 1 g per 9000 m). By measuring the strength of the web, scientists have found that it is 5 to 8 dernier. Calculations show: in order for the web to collapse under the weight of its weight, it must be between 45 and 72 kilometers in length. For comparison, the strength of steel is only 2,5 -3 dernier.

      If you gird the globe around the equator line with a cobweb, then the weight of such a web will be only 300 grams. In addition, the web is very elastic, it can stretch one third of its length .. The spider’s thread, before breaking, can be stretched by 30-40 percent of its length, and nylon, the most durable man-made material, can only be stretched to the maximum 20 per cent.

      http://samogoo.net/samaya-krepkaya-nit.html
      1. +3
        26 January 2017 11: 24
        Respected Scoun you are a little disingenuous hi or don't understand ...
        Maybe it will be interesting to you, well, and informative.

        this is about squirrel which based water creates a film and it cannot be stronger than steel!
        1. +2
          26 January 2017 11: 33
          Quote: himRa
          it's about a protein that is water based

          Quote: Scoun
          Maybe it will be interesting to you, well, and informative.

          What do spider threads consist of? A spider synthesizes a web of amino acids, so, in fact, the web is pure protein.
          1. +3
            26 January 2017 11: 46
            I will answer the words of the respected Asadullahs
            There are no developments. This "discovery", under a hundred years. The announced surnames probably patented another doll and are trying to transfer the payment of patent support to the Navy. I am sure that we will never hear again about "mucus, ten times stronger than steel." America is a country of great discoveries and bright engineering, but for every talent there are a million crooks in search of fame, money, or to satisfy the hunger of schizophrenia. This "biochemist" and "engineer", well, certainly not from talents.
            1. +3
              26 January 2017 11: 59
              1. In fact. Nylon, which is essentially an analogue of the Silk thread, which again produces an insect.
              Like many synthetic fibers, this material was invented by the chemist Wallace Carothers, who worked at Dupont Chemical in 1935. In 1938, the company patented the name "nylon" to introduce a new substance to consumers.

              The USSR literally hunted for the technology of its production.
              2. What they could not synthesize (like threads similar to the web) a hundred and ten years ago, with existing and developing new technologies .. who knows what they will do in five years?
              The display that can be rolled into a tube - 30 years ago was space fiction.
              1. +3
                26 January 2017 12: 47
                1. In fact. Nylon, which is essentially an analogue of the Silk thread, which again produces an insect.

                this is not a fact, but an excerpt from the article:
                According to D. Kogot, the threads of myxin mucus can be compared in strength to spider silk, and in terms of mechanical quality they are comparable to Kevlar.

                the fact is:
                Sensing something was amiss, the myxinum secretes mucus from the skin, simultaneously folding into a knot. With this knot, she rests on the offender and, moving him along the body, abundantly smeared with mucus, breaks free.

                and synthesized protein (all life consists of amino acids)
                second component water
                2- you rely on the first and is erroneous ...
                You may not like my sarcasm, but you didn’t justify your dissatisfaction, but you tried to find out how to use prohibited methods such as moving away from the topic and using well-known truths of the type laughing
                2. What they could not synthesize (like threads similar to the web) a hundred and ten years ago, with existing and developing new technologies .. who knows what they will do in five years?

                Well, you can believe science as a religion, but there are limits! wassat
                30 years ago was space fiction

                In the end: no breakthrough discoveries in the media yet
                1-do not explore the maximum possible benefits
                2-will not secure their right
                Something like that
                with respect hi
    2. +2
      26 January 2017 14: 28
      Quote: himRa
      Yes already out of the water and ,, stronger than steel ,,

      So splash out of the bucket into the ocean and hell will swim through such a jelly ... In my opinion at Heinlein in "Freydy" something similar is mentioned. Fiction ... was ...
      1. +1
        26 January 2017 18: 41
        Quote: region58
        I think Heinlein’s Fredy’s

        Damn, lied. "Moonlight Rainbow" Pavlova. I'm getting old ...
        About five years ago, in one of the latest television news broadcasts, a teleportation was shown from the Port-1 satellite about the final stage of the liquidation of the discovered stocks of some infernal substance, code-named "Mary Auntie", created in the once-existing top-secret laboratory for naval research HRS. From the berths of “Port-1”, the decrepit tanker Amalia set off on an irrevocable flight towards the Sun. With great precautions, under the escort of the ships-barriers of VDOO. Amalia's holds and tanks were packed with containers similar to autoclaves. Two hundred container autoclaves with the letters ZTM on the shiny yellow sides were enough to turn all the water of such reservoirs as the Gulf of Mexico or the Black Sea into jelly. A full load of Amalia would have been enough for the Atlantic Ocean ... And recently, with even greater caution, some other deadly dirty trick called “Uncle John’s tobacco” was thrown into the unrequited depths of the Sun. They dropped along with the entire squadron of transport ships that took part in this, they say, complex operation.
  4. +9
    26 January 2017 09: 56
    This is one of the most promising areas: organic materials,
    replicating tissues, muscles of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc.
    Their strength characteristics are phenomenal. Metals do not stand close.
    On a thin rope of such fabrics you can hang the tank.
    1. +3
      26 January 2017 10: 02
      It is only interesting to know the price of the issue. How much will such armor cost and whether its cost will exceed all the possible benefits from its use.
      1. +3
        26 January 2017 10: 09
        It's right. Go from laboratory experiments to
        industrial production is not easy because of the high cost.
        Such materials will first go to medicine: prosthetics, organ replacement,
        artificial joints, muscles - instead of metals and plastics.
        Then all sorts of films and inserts will be built in for the military.
        For example, in exoskeletons and bulletproof vests for special forces
    2. +1
      26 January 2017 11: 36
      This is one of the most promising areas: organic materials,
      replicating tissues, muscles of insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc.
      Their strength characteristics are phenomenal. Metals do not stand close.
      On a thin rope of such fabrics you can hang the tank.


      Yeah. There is also Spider-Man, a miracle right. Everyone saw him. even suits are sold in children's stores. Can you give examples of at least one of these animal miracle materials.
      1. +10
        26 January 2017 15: 05
        Asadullah Today, 11:36 ↑ New
        Yeah. There is also Spider-Man, a miracle right. Everyone saw him. even suits are sold in children's stores. Can you give examples of at least one of these animal miracle materials.
        Asadula, why did you break the crystal dreams of this poor fellow ?! He is sickly fool firmly believes in what they write about America. The fact that “Abrams” is not a killable cyber-tank-transformer, that the U.S. invented a heavy-duty thread that can withstand the same unbearable Abrams, and finally, that their Fu-35 is the world's best wunderwafer, which wafers are all wafers and with this prodigy they will defeat all of all everyone in the world ...! laughing
        Just like a little kid. And, as you know, whatever the child wouldn’t amuse himself anyway ... lol
  5. +11
    26 January 2017 10: 02
    Animal based armor developed in the USA
    The most important thing is that the armor with a fright does not run away bully laughing
    1. +4
      26 January 2017 15: 44
      it is with a fright that she escapes! wassat
      Sensing something was amiss, the myxinum secretes mucus from the skin, simultaneously folding into a knot. With this knot, she rests on the offender and, moving him along the body, abundantly smeared with mucus, breaks free.
  6. +8
    26 January 2017 10: 10
    you’re all a herd .. just a herd .. what the hell .. people do things, moreover real and promising .. and you go ahead and joke .. like in one fell swoop seven beats .. where are our developments in such promising directions ? Urya patriots are tattered !!!
    1. +4
      26 January 2017 10: 26
      For Bug_N_O
      I did not manage to register on the site, but you are rude and insulting. Not good. I don’t like someone’s comment, so answer it. What are all in a bunch and rude?
      where are our achievements

      So I would talk about Belarusian developments.
      1. +1
        26 January 2017 10: 30
        I’ve been on the site for more than 5 years .. just an eternal ban for the truth and independent Imperial thinking!
      2. 0
        26 January 2017 10: 31
        in Belarus there is already nothing to eat okromya oatmeal on the water and sn for 100 bucks!
        1. +2
          26 January 2017 12: 13
          This is in what area the "famine" occurred, recently there was a village near Sukhari near Mogilev - sn about 200 bucks like ours in gpubinka, and oatmeal on the water does not "eat"
          1. 0
            26 January 2017 15: 47
            G. Drogichin .. zp 260 rubles at the plant ... 100 rubles communal apartment + food + cigarettes + kindergarten + school + solarium ... we draw conclusions .. it’s good that the wife of zp 300 rubles (150 Baku) ... as we see, we work only for food and children to dress more .. well, sometimes it would be nice to dress yourself too ...
            1. 0
              26 January 2017 17: 31
              the colony misunderstands its role
    2. +1
      26 January 2017 10: 28
      you’re all a herd .. just a herd .. what the hell .. people do things, moreover real and promising .. and you go ahead and joke .. like in one fell swoop seven beats .. where are our developments in such promising directions ? Urya patriots are tattered !!!

      This is why in the morning it is so upset then? The idea as a whole is true, but the pitch.
      1. +1
        26 January 2017 10: 35
        Apparently, living with a hangover became scary, and if scared, then the defensive reaction is aggression!
  7. +2
    26 January 2017 10: 21
    Bionic defense is an interesting topic .... 10 times stronger than steel --- having such material, the designer will be able to set more ambitious tasks.
  8. +6
    26 January 2017 10: 30
    Well done! Interesting!
  9. +2
    26 January 2017 10: 42
    As far as I know, we are also conducting such work ... something on the subject of the web ... and so, it seems like we are already testing liquid armor ...
  10. +1
    26 January 2017 11: 04
    Bionics is one of the most interesting areas. Ours are also developing (though they do not advertise at all) ... but for now ..... sorry in the video, only snot ...........
    1. 0
      26 January 2017 11: 42
      And very expensive snot ... bully
      1. +1
        26 January 2017 12: 03
        Quote: pepel79
        And very expensive snot ...

        Where did you pick out the kozulyu that expensive kazyulki on the video clip? wassat
        Looks like there was a discharge of electricity from a nuclear power plant in the hundreds of megawatts or a glass of blue diamonds wassat
  11. +1
    26 January 2017 11: 53
    Stupidly dolbonul the worm with an electric current and got slime
    1. +2
      26 January 2017 12: 07
      Quote: CKORPII
      Stupidly dolbonul the worm with an electric current and got slime

      Ava did not wonder that in order to fuck him ... did you first have to come across and study this worm and identify its features? He didn’t stupidly beat the electric shock ... but he knew whom and for what.
      + you for the alleged "high cost".
  12. +1
    26 January 2017 12: 01
    It would be good for our scientific minds to engage in such developments.
  13. +1
    26 January 2017 12: 46
    Where is our nanotechnologist, the oligarch scoop?
    1. +3
      26 January 2017 15: 47
      Hid after he was clicked on the nose for statements at the Davos forum
      Quote: 1536
      Where is our nanotechnologist, the oligarch scoop?
  14. 0
    26 January 2017 13: 42
    What can I say? Well done. Actually, there is still a lot of everything in nature that would be worth exploring and reproducing.
  15. 0
    26 January 2017 14: 49
    ruined a glass of water and now the dough is sowed! I have my own development and also makes the water unfit for drinking. good
    why didn’t they show how bullets bounced off her?
  16. 0
    30 January 2017 09: 50
    I propose to make a bulletproof vest with the name "Snot" out of this mucus