BU researchers have developed a new metamaterial that can improve MRI quality and cut scan time in half Could a small ringlike structure made of plastic and copper amplify the already powerf... Read more
Origami-inspired metamaterial softens impact forces for potential use in spacecraft, cars and beyond
Space vehicles like SpaceX’s Falcon 9 are designed to be reusable. But this means that, like Olympic gymnasts hoping for a gold medal, they have to stick their landings. Landing is stressful... Read more
CU Boulder and University of Wyoming engineers have successfully scaled up an innovative water-cooling system capable of providing continuous day-and-night radiative cooling for structures.... Read more
First demonstration of a metal-free metamaterial that can absorb electromagnetic energy Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world’s first electromagnetic metamater... Read more
When a material is made, you typically cannot change whether that material is hard or soft. But a group of University of Michigan researchers have developed a new way to design a “meta... 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
Breakthrough research from the University of California-San Diego could take the US military one step closer towards having cloaked aircraft and drones. Researchers Li Yi Hsu, Thomas Lepetit... 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
Technique transforms silver into any color of the rainbow The engineering world just became even more colorful. Northwestern University researchers have created a new technique that can tran... 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
Elastic Invisibility Cloak Allows to Hide from Touching / Mechanical Meta-material Can Be Produced in Millimeter Size In the past years, invisibility cloaks were developed for various senses... Read more
Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks. It may seem easy in Hollywood movies, but is hard... Read more
“Our work demonstrates a simple and inexpensive approach to electromagnetic power harvesting,” Using inexpensive materials configured and tuned to capture microwave signals, researchers at D... Read more
The cloak that renders one invisible is a common element in mythology and fairy-tales, but new materials with surprising properties bring the idea closer to reality by providing novel... Read more
