Tweaked Kevlar vest stops bugs as well as bullets / New Scientist, 28 July 2008
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"TO SOUP up your bulletproof vest, why not make it antibacterial, too? Jie Luo and Yuyu Sun of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion have done just that, using a molecule called polymethacrylamide (PMAA)."