Army engineers have come-up with bomb-proof wallpaper that can help stop shrapnel injuries.
The prototype, designed by army engineers in the United States, is lightweight and could be easily transported to quickly line walls inside temporary buildings, the Mirror reported.
Justin Bronk, research analyst at the Royal United Services Institute, told a science website that the idea of coating the inside of structures to reduce the danger of debris to occupants is not new.
Nick Boone, a research mechanical engineer at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, said the wallpaper, made of ballistic Kevlar fibres embedded in flexible polymer film, had been successfully tested.
Small blast trials had been carried out near Fort Polk in Louisiana, while larger testing had been conducted at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.