In the macro world, it's easy see what happens when a bullet hits an object. But what happens at the nanoscale with very tiny bullets?

A Rice University lab, in collaboration with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies decided to find out by creating the nanoscale target materials, the microscale ammo and even the method for firing them.

In the process, they gathered a surprising amount of information about how materials called block copolymers dissipate the strain of sudden impact.

Read more at http://news.rice.edu/2012/10/30/micro...