Graphene shows promise for bulletproof armor

[bonerrs]

This should prove useful to you prepper types (wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivalism) out there. Or anyone who is averse to being injured while suffering collisions with high-speed projectiles.

This man needs that kind of protection. So he can protect you. Do it. For him.

Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-30246089

[raphjd]

I knew about graphene before this thread, but I didn't know about this use.

One of the planned uses is for backing the gold dust covered material that's used to reflect heat on satellites.

[nordicblue]

Graphene has a high tensile strength without any elasticity.  It would make terrible body armor as it would shatter and not allow as much movement.