Examples of this are cases of iridescence in nature (like butterfly wings) and eye color, where the perceived colors are the result of environmental light interacting with these structures rather ...

Metasurfaces are thin-films composed of individual elements that have initially been developed to overcome the obstacles that metamaterials are confronted with. An example of a metasurface, which can ...

Metamaterials are designed to have unique ... according to researchers. Examples include super-lenses to view objects at the molecular scale; invisibility cloaks, which refract all visible light ...

Clever Arrangement of Helically Deformed Rods in Metamaterials Metamaterials are artificially designed materials that do not ...

Overall behavior of composite materials and metamaterials. The fundamentals of homogenization ... and periodic approaches with examples from particulate, whisker, platelet, and fiber-reinforced ...

Metamaterials are ordered composite materials with electronic, optical, and magnetic properties distinct from those of the component ¿building blocks'. Their unusual properties can often be derived by ...

An international research team coordinated at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform ...

Metamaterials: Highly twisted rods store large amounts of energy New mechanical metamaterials exhibit high levels of stiffness and elastic energy density Date: April 2, 2025 Source: Karlsruher ...