Cornstarch solution can be a potential candidate for next-generation bulletproof clothing and impact materials. Research in Professor Eric Brown's laboratory at Yale University has shown a unique property of comstarch-water mixture that responds to impacts well. Upon impact, it cracks resembling solids and then it returns to fluid state. This phenomenon is understood as 'shear thickening'. Shear thickening fluids have been researched over a number of years for its impact resistance properties. However, Yale Group is using a biomaterial and has observed this phenomenon.
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