12. Advanced Carborundum Armour - More durable cubic form of the Carborundum is usually grown by the more expensive process of chemical vapor deposition (CVD), forming a larger and thicker crystal plates. The new armour composition (unofficialy called "Brick Armour") have 10% better penetration resistance, while is technologically easier to construct.
13. Monocrystal Carborundum Armour - The ultimate Carborundum armour can be manufactured using Pyrolysis method - the thermal decomposition of a polymer, poly(methylsilyne), under an inert atmosphere at low temperatures. Relative to the CVD process, the Pyrolysis method is advantageous because the polymer can be formed into various shapes prior to thermalization into the ceramic.
This allows to syntesize any size and shape armour plates with flawless and homogenous structure.
14. Osmium Armour - Osmium is an extremely dense, blue-gray, hard but brittle metal that remains lustrous even at high temperatures. Due to its hardness, brittleness, and very high melting point (the fourth highest of all elements), solid Osmium is difficult to machine, form, or work. Osmium is generally considered to be the densest natural element (twice as dense as Lead). Because of the volatility and extreme toxicity of its oxide, Osmium is used in its pure state, and is instead often alloyed with other metals. Those alloys are utilized in high-wear applications. Osmium alloys such as Osmiridium are very hard and decisively surpasses any other metal armour penetration resistance. The main drawback is that Osmium is rare and thus very hard to produce and expensive.
15. Tantalum Carbide Armour - Tantalum Carbide(TaC) is an extremely hard refractory, heavy, brown ceramic material. Its hardness is only exceeded by Diamond. Tantalum carbide has the distinction of being the stoichiometric binary compound with the highest known melting point, at 4150 K. The substoichiometric compound TaC0.89 has a higher melting point, near 4270 K. Tantalum carbide-graphite composite material, is one of the hardest materials ever synthesized.
16. Heterodiamond Armour - Heterodiamond is a superhard material containing boron, carbon, and nitrogen (BCN). It is formed at high temperatures and high pressures, e.g., by application of an explosive shock wave to a mixture of diamond and cubic boron nitride. The heterodiamond is a polycrystalline material coagulated with nano-crystallites and the fine powder is tinged with deep bluish black. The heterodiamond has both the high hardness of diamond and the excellent heat resistance of cubic BN. These characteristic properties are due to the diamond structure combined with the sp3 ?-bonds among carbon and the hetero atoms.
17. Beta-Carbon Nitride Armour - Examining the nature of crystalline bonds scientist theorised that carbon and nitrogen atoms could form a particularly short and strong bond in a stable crystal lattice in a ratio of 1:1.3. That this material is harder than diamond. The material has been considered difficult to produce and could not be synthesized for many years. Recently, the production of beta carbon nitride was achieved. For example, nanosized beta carbon nitride crystals and nanorods of this material were prepared by means of an approach involving mechanochemical processing.
18. Ultrahard Fullerite Armour - Fullerites are the solid-state manifestation of fullerenes and related compounds and materials. "Ultrahard fullerite" is a coined term frequently used to describe material produced by high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) processing of fullerite. Such treatment converts fullerite into a nanocrystalline form of diamond which exhibits remarkable mechanical properties, wich significally surpasses these of the diamond. The scientist suppose this is the hardest material can be produced by conventional chemistry.
19. Nanoshell Armour - The advance in nanoengineering technlogies clear path to creation of even more durable materials than the Ultrahard Fullerite(UHF). The nanocontrolled synthesis of the UHF
allows a creation of armor, which have the atomic structure of the fullerite, but with perfectly homogenous structure, without flaws and anomalies. Literally, the this armour can be described as "single large monocrystal". Unoficially it was widely known as "Nanoshell armour".
20. Nanocomposite Armor - An advancement in nanoconstruction technologies allowed improvements of the nanoconstructed armor. In order to increase levels of protection and penetration resistance, inside the main Fullerite atomic grid, interwieving with it, is constructed another atomic grid, with different material structure. The project is top secret, and very little is known about it. Only officially confirmed information claims the structure of this armour is "osmium filled synthetic nanospheres".
21. Mumesic Armor - When the scientist realised, that all conventional ways to improve durability of the armour are exhausted, they turned to research on exotic matter. After long research, they manage to create stable Mumesic atoms, where Muons orbiting the atom nucleus in the place of an Electrons. Nanoconstruction of usable quantities of this matter to serve as armour is enormous task, but results are truli unbeliavable and exciting.
22. Hadronic Armor - Proving that the concept of exotic matter armour is true, the scientists continue to refine this technology. Experiments with Hadronic atoms, in which Hadrons orbiting the nucleus in the place of an Electrons cheate even more durable exptic matter armour. Some atomic instabilities was removed, and new advanced type of armour entered mass production.
23. Hypernuclear Armor - The ultimate exotic matter armour technology is achieved by creating a material consysted of hyperatoms, where atom nucleus contains Hyperons, with Mesons orbiting the nucleus. Unbelievable density of this material makes them impervious by almost any level kinetic attack.
24. Tetraquark Armor - Experiments with Strange matter revealed way to compose new stable exotic particle - Tetraquark is a exotic meson composed of two valence quark-antiquark pairs. In principle, a tetraquark state is allowed in Quantum chromodynamics, the modern theory of strong interactions. The established tetraquark state is an example of an exotic hadron which lies outside the quark model classification. Combining Tetraquarks in stable strong interaction bonded dense particle grid gives a new tipe of armour - Tetraquark or also called "Exomesonic" armour.
25. Pentaquark Armor - Enhansement of the Tetraquark armour leads to new type of exotic matter armour - Pentaquark Armour, a dense particle grid of Exotic Baryons, consisting of four quarks and one antiquark, also called "Exobaryonic Armour".
26. Dihyperon Armor - most sophisticated type of Exotic matter armour.
Dibaryons are a large family of particles that would consist of six quarks of any flavours. They are predicted to be fairly stable once formed. Confirmed existence of a stable H-Dibaryon, made by combining two UDS-Hyperons leads to creation of ultimate Strange Particle armor - The Dihyperon Armor, a particle grid of H-Dibaryons with density of the core of Neutron star.
27. Gluonium Armor - The ultimate armor, Gluonium solely consists of Gluon particles, without valence Quarks. Such a state is possible because gluons carry color charge and experience the strong interaction. Field testing reveals unsurpassed penetration resistanse of this kind of armour. It is unsuspectedly even better then was teoretically predicted. The precise measurements reveals, that some of the kinetic energy of the penetrator "vanishes". The speculations are, that a part of the kinetic energy is absorbed by the Gluons, turning them into "excited state" for a short duration. When they back into normal state, additional energy is stripped as Gluino particle, which later decay into Neutralino particle and Quark-Antiquark pair.
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