[oxfeed65261]

“The researchers found that the new material’s elastic modulus — a measure of how much force it takes to deform a material — is between four and six times greater than that of bulletproof glass. They also found that its yield strength, or how much force it takes to break the material, is twice that of steel, even though the material has only about one-sixth the density of steel.”

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[ajmurmann]

So, if I understand this correctly it's strong in pretty much any practical way. Then I still don't understand why they only talk about coating, given they also keep saying it's easy to produce.