There is a lot of interest in understanding the structure and principles of biological materials, as they often have excellent and robust performance in a variety of different properties.
In the field of armor development, consider that Kevlar was introduced in 1965 and has had therefore about a half-century of further improvement, mainly by a single company. Contrast this to biological materials, which are the results of the process of evolution. How can we think of biological evolution compared to typical laboratory development in our civilization? Evolution is like having a consortium of 1000 laboratories, with each laboratory having 1000 workers, including professors, post-docs, and graduate students, and that these 1000 laboratories are working together to improve the product — over a period of 100 million years!
Most man-made materials are relatively simple compared to those in biology. For instance, steel, whose single most important property is hardness, is fundamentally just iron, dug out of a rock, purified and then mixed with chemicals. Biological materials, including the base material which Shomarmiyam harvests from oceanic sources, are robust and have multiple other desirable qualities besides just one such as hardness. Shomarmiyam can provide additional information about the interesting properties of our base material upon request to potential partners.