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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 has developed mechanical metamaterials with a high elastic energy density. Highly twisted rods that deform helically provide these metamaterials with a high stiffness ...

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 ...