A flexible semiconductor for electronics, solar technology and photo catalysis It is the double helix, with its stable and flexible structure of genetic information, that made life on Earth... Read more
New mechanical ‘metamaterial’ developed at Tel Aviv University may revolutionize prosthetics and wearable technologies Ill-fitting joint sockets, contact dermatitis and sebaceous... Read more
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona researchers have developed a system which efficiently transfers electrical energy between two separate circuits. The system, made with a shell of metamateri... Read more
Iowa State University engineers have developed a new flexible, stretchable and tunable “meta-skin” that uses rows of small, liquid-metal devices to cloak an object from the sharp eyes of ra... Read more
Scientists have proposed a metasurface for the anomalous scattering of visible light A team of scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) and the Landau Institute... Read more
Scientists and engineers are engaged in a global race to make new materials that are as thin, light and strong as possible. These properties can be achieved by designing materials at the ato... Read more
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) created a synthetic material out of one billion tiny magnets. Astonishingly, it now appears that the magnetic properties of this so-called me... Read more
Plastics. Computers. Metamaterials? Almost half a century after Dustin Hoffman was taken aside in “The Graduate” and given the famous “one word” line about the future, it may be time to upda... Read more
Engineering researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a material that has the ability to control these waves, creating possible medical, military and commercial applications w... Read more
The quest to create artificial “squid skin” — camouflaging metamaterials that can “see” colors and automatically blend into the background — is one step closer to reality, thanks to a breakt... Read more
Scientists at The Australian National University (ANU) have uncovered the secret to twisting light at will. It is the latest step in the development of photonics, the faster, more compact an... Read more
The light-warping structures known as metamaterials have a new trick in their ever-expanding repertoire. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a... Read more
A new physics discovery made by a University of Virginia-led team may lead to more efficient refrigerators, heat pumps and airport scanners, among many possible uses –perhaps within a decade... Read more
Carbyne will be the strongest of a new class of microscopic materials if and when anyone can make it in bulk. If they do, they’ll find carbyne nanorods or nanoropes have a host of remarkable... Read more
The lightweight skeletons of organisms such as sea sponges display a strength that far exceeds that of manmade products constructed from similar materials. Scientists have long suspected tha... Read more
