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Coming of age for 'future fibres'

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Barot Casha

The engineering for the experiment is the first challenge to overcome

In a subterranean laboratory at the centre of Cambridge, PhD student Juan Vilatela crouches beneath a furnace that is raging at a temperature of 1,300C.

This new type of carbon fibre , being developed at the University could be woven into super-strong body armour for the military and law enforcement.

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