Is it possible to make a diamond armor?
Do you think that this is possible to do and will it be better in the armor of he present times?

You're completely insane! Diamonds are incrediably hard to find and no, you can't make diamond armor because even diamonds breack from bullets.

i think youll find that they dont.
diamonds are the hardest material found in nature. but whatever yoou use to bind the diamonds together will reak, that and the bullet may wel force the diamond into the earer.

bullet roff vests work by absorbing the energy of a bullet.

once again:

diamonds=hard
bullets=soft

diamonds would shatter as they contain stress lines and would indeed fracture....


from wiki..
Toughness relates to a material's ability to resist breakage from forceful impact. The toughness of natural diamond has been measured as 3.4 MN m-3/2,[11] which is good compared to other gemstones, but poor compared to most engineering materials. As with any material, the macroscopic geometry of a diamond contributes to its resistance to breakage. Diamond is therefore more fragile in some orientations than others.

so not only would you get stung by the bullet, you would also cop a few diamond fragments into the bargain!

Mmmm, it's interesting that this was brought up.

Depends on what kind of armor. Ballistic armors on tanks and tiles on body armor are actually fabricated from ceramic materials of near hardness to diamond. When the material shatters, it absorbs the energy of the bullet thereby eliminating the threat. The hardness of the materials also erode the tips of projectiles, preventing further penetration into the ceramic.

Diamond is not an inferior material as armor. It's simply not used because of the expense necessary to sinter and bond the diamond from its powdered reagent form, as most synthetic diamond is produced as a powder through chemical vapor deposition means. But introducing it into a ceramic mixture would be beneficial to its projectile resistance.

Take a look at this article:

http://www.ceramicindustry.com/Articles/Cover_Story/106...CM100000f932a8c0____

Under "Composite Advances", the author discusses the use of diamond coatings surrounding boron carbide in order to strengthen the ceramic armor that would be produced. So to honest, an armor fabricated completely out of diamond would be impractical, but it certainly has its merits in composites.