When a player gets hit, the Kevlar fibers stretch and spread the force evenly across the surface, suppressing the shock.

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Luckham and Torres milled down old fabrics and mixed the fibers with a polymer, then added a solvent that would evaporate before the formula hit a surface and turned solid on contact.

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