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NFL Awards Impact-Absorbing Material With Unusual Geometric Structure

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Three samples of the winning material from Head Health Challenge III, a competition to spur the discovery, design and development of advanced materials that can absorb or dissipate physical impacts to the head or body. Credit: Webber & Stoughton/NIST

Two California companies, 6D Helmets and Dynamic Research, Inc., have been named grand prize winners of the NFL’s Head Health Challenge III. The Challenge is part of a four-year, $60 million program Head Health Initiative that GE and the league collaborated on creating.

“We’re thrilled to be named the winners of the Head Health Challenge III along with our project partners Dynamic Research Inc.