It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.
This seems much less effective than the Espiku system covered in OSU’s Engineering Out Loud podcast.
I will give it few weeks and we will no longer hear about it. There are many articles like this but as always nothing is developed.
I remember seeing it here a month ago…
A significant amount of researchers seem to author these kinds of papers that sound great but then can’t be reliably reproduced, or are completely impractical in application. The NileRed video about his attempts to create the compressed wood “armor” was very illuminating to this point.
Ah yes, and I also have a bridge here in my bag to sell you!
It’s sad that this is yet another thing endorsed by MIT that’s yet again vaporware. MIT used to mean something, now I automatically assume it’s nonsense.
Love the vapor pun.