The US Marine Corps announced a one-year $1.6 million contract with Ann Arbor-based
Solidica, Inc. to advance the company's armoring technology.
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Solidica's technology uses layered bonding analogous to what's used with resins in stereolithography, to layer metals instead, allowing layers of dissimilar metals to be bonded at the molecular level. That creates novel materials with properties not found in nature—such as, in the case of this material, potential improved armoring capabilities.
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