“Molecules don’t just thread themselves through each other on ... which is in the same family as Kevlar. With a composite material made of 97 percent Ultem and only 2.5 percent of the new ...

To add strength to them without weight, a series of Kevlar threads are strung from one end of the truss to the other on the interior, and then tensioned by twisting the threads at one end.

With 100 trillion mechanical bonds per square centimeter, this molecular “chainmail” makes Kevlar-like materials dramatically ... “Molecules don’t just thread themselves through each other on their ...