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Silk 'Invisibility Cloak' Could Lead to Better Biocompatible Metamaterials
Silky InvisibilityYou can get a silk invisibility cloak in any color you want as long as it's invisible.mckaysavage via FlickrTo think Marco Polo didn't even know what he had. Silk and gold, considered...
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Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events
Forget invisibility cloaks. Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated - on paper, anyhow - a metamaterial "space-time cloak" that can conceal entire events from view, making a viewer see...
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Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible
CalciteIt's all in the crystals.Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com via WikimediaThe first invisibility cloak that works on visible objects Metamaterials have long been thought the key to creating the working,...
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Big Bang Recreated in a Metamaterial, Offers Evidence That Time Travel is...
Toy Big Bang, and a Model for the Real ThingIgor I. Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju HungMetamaterials can be used to create desktop black holes and simulate multiverses; now a physicist is using them to prove...
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Metamaterial Lenses Could Allow Easy Wireless Power Transmission
Metamaterial HyperlensThis brass acoustic hyperlens can magnify imaging sound waves to increase the resolution of sonar and ultrasound. A new metamaterial superlens developed at Duke directs waves...
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Acoustic Invisibility Cloak Makes Objects Unhearable
U.S. Navy ShipsWikimedia CommonsCould shield ships from sonar, create better concert hallsA new acoustic invisibility cloak made of a plastic metamaterial makes objects invisible to sound waves,...
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Photovoltaic Breakthrough Lets Engineered Materials Emit More Blackbody...
Blackbody Radiation from MetamaterialsConfused about blackbody radiation? Just check out this helpful diagram.Physical Review LettersMetamaterials to the rescue once again Metamaterials as a class get...
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Anti-Wave Tech Tricks Ocean Water Into Standing Still, Making Ships Efficient...
U.S. Navy Ships at SeaWikimedia CommonsWe've already seen how future ships can be cloaked against sonar, and maybe someday even space and time. Now researchers say they can cloak the ships' wakes,...
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The Newest Revolutions in Metamaterials Bring Invisibility Within Reach
Invisibility ChipReuters/David MoirThe science of stealth has long been a matter of fading into already obscure environments-the night sky, say, or the deep sea. But engineers are now developing...
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Metamaterials Can Exert a Whole New Kind of Force
Gecko Toes and Their Optically Adhering Counterpartvia arXivSimilar to the mysterious clinging ability of geckoes Today in crazy tricks of physics, a few researchers over at the University of...
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The World's First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles
Invisible to Microwavesvia IOP [PDF]In microwaves, that is The search for the perfect invisibility cloak lumbers onward, but that lumbering is starting to pick up speed. We're hearing more and more...
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'Nanofishnet' Could Be the First Metamaterial to Impossibly Bend Light in the...
The Nanofishnet Array: Layers of Silver and GlassCarlos García Meca via IEEE SpectrumMetamaterials hold the elusive promise of the true invisibility cloak, one that bends light right around objects to...
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New 'Mechanical Metamaterial' Expands When You Compress It, Shrinks When You...
Mechanical Metamaterials Could Create Cushions That Push BackJohan via WikimediaIt's 'opposite day' for metamaterials Metamaterials research has generally focused on media with strange or unique...
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The First 'Perfect' Invisibility Cloak Completely Conceals Objects (From...
The 'Perfect' Invisibility CloakNature Materials via BBCIt's not quite the visible-spectrum breakthrough we're waiting for, but invisibility science has hit a theoretical high point. A big step forward...
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Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat Wounds
Organic, Liquid-Like Hydrogel Made Of Chains Of Synthetic DNALuo Lab"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in...
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Silk 'Invisibility Cloak' Could Lead to Better Biocompatible Metamaterials
Silky Invisibility You can get a silk invisibility cloak in any color you want as long as it's invisible. mckaysavage via FlickrTo think Marco Polo didn't even know what he had. Silk and gold,...
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Metamaterial 'Space-Time Cloak' Conceals Not Just Objects, But Entire Events
The Space-Time Cloak Imperial College London Forget invisibility cloaks. Researchers at Imperial College London have demonstrated – on paper, anyhow – a metamaterial "space-time cloak" that can...
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Using Special Crystals, Researchers Make a Paper Clip Invisible
Calcite It's all in the crystals. Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com via WikimediaMetamaterials have long been thought the key to creating the working, visible spectrum "invisibility cloak" promised us by...
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Big Bang Recreated in a Metamaterial, Offers Evidence That Time Travel is...
Toy Big Bang, and a Model for the Real Thing Igor I. Smolyaninov and Yu-Ju Hung Metamaterials can be used to create desktop black holes and simulate multiverses; now a physicist is using them to prove...
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Metamaterial Lenses Could Allow Easy Wireless Power Transmission
Metamaterial Hyperlens This brass acoustic hyperlens can magnify imaging sound waves to increase the resolution of sonar and ultrasound. A new metamaterial superlens developed at Duke directs waves...
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