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Thai silk cocoon vests can ‘catch bullets’

A KHON KAEN University researcher and a weaver from the Northeast have successfully developed what has been labelled the world’s first silk-cocoon bulletproof vest.

The men behind the innovation are Orapin Thongnonggoy, Phu Viang Silk Handicraft Centre’s community enterprise president, and KKU chemical engineering lecturer Assoc Prof Panomkorn Khoahong.

Read more: The Nation

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