Imagine armor as light as fabric yet stronger than steel, built from materials that link together like molecular chainmail. Scientists may have just taken the first step toward making it a reality.

Resembling the interlocking links in chainmail, the nanoscale material ... light-weight body armor and other uses that demand lightweight, flexible and tough materials. The researchers produced ...

The find which most excited researchers was a particularly rare set of chainmail armor. There have only been a handful of chainmail sets from this period discovered in Scandinavia. Also found ...

The material resembles medieval chainmail at the molecular level and could be used in body armor. Chemists have invented a new material that could be the future of body armor — chainmail.