Profiles of the Top-5 Startups. Today: Auxetix

In a short series, we will profile the 5 finalists that will present at the Grand Final of the Global Security Challenge 2007 on November 8th in London. Starting the series today is Auxetix.

Auxetix Ltd –United Kingdom

The Auxetix blast mitigation fabrics use a completely new kind of technology that provides enhanced multiple-event protection for windows by exploiting the unusual behaviour of the helicalauxetic system. The fabrics, which are composed of large numbers of thin high-strength fibres wrapped around elastomeric cores, can also be used to line military vehicles and aircraft, enhance body armours, in transportation crates, and for the protection of stored ordnance.

The technology responds to a blast by expanding which allows a blast front to pass through the material slowing it down and reducing its capacity to kill or injure.