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I don't know if this will actually pan out the way that they imply in the title; armor needs to have a lot of different characteristics in order to be practical. As in, resistance to heat and cold, resistance to acids, alkalines, petroleum distillates, salts, UV, and oxygen, and also resist deformation. Multiple materials have displays significant promise for armor, but had a very short lifespan in real-word conditions. For instance, there was a material trademarked as Zylon that was supposed to be better than Kevlar, and it was used extensively by Second Chance (a body armor company); several cops were killed when their armor failed, and the armor failed because of exposure to sweat and ambient heat.
Yeah, this is a super cool development, but remember that everything that comes out at this stage is hype.
The armor works perfectly fine as long as it's not exposed to oxygen. But when's that ever going to happen?
That by itself isn't terrible, that could still be used if it is sealed in something like an era brick if it's good enough.
Yes... that's why they use the word "could". This is how research works and what reasonable science reporting looks like. There were no promises or wild claims made in the article.
Layer it with Kevlar and good?
It really depends on whether it can be made to meet all the other criteria required for armor. I think that it's too early to make any good predictions.