When materials are created on a nanometer scale — just a handful of atoms thick — even the thermal energy present at room ...

The mantis shrimp is a colourful, 10-cm-long resident of the ocean whose appearance belies its reputation as one of the most ...

"For example, I can introduce real-time controlled ... More information: Jian Zhou et al, Rippled metamaterials with scale-dependent tailorable elasticity, Proceedings of the National Academy ...

New research offering bendable sound waves that can reach only one set of ears could be the next tech revolution.

The advent of metamaterials 6, in which parameters can ... optical and electronic functions at the nanoscale. For example, they may be used to dynamically modify the optical properties of a ...

For example, they can bend light in unusual directions, enabling technologies like invisibility cloaks or superlenses that reveal tiny details beyond normal limits. In the last decade, metamaterials ...

A team of researchers from China and the US has introduced a new method to improve the performance of high-enthalpy elastic ...

This book gives a comprehensive review on thermal metamaterials, an emerging type of artificial ... We include detailed derivations and examples for each theory or method. The book ends with an ...

Metamaterials are artificially-structured materials with extraordinary properties not easily found in nature. With engineered three-dimensional (3D) geometries at the micro- and nanoscale, these ...

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 ...

A team led by UChicago Pritzker Molecular Engineering has discovered materials that defy convention, shrinking when heated ...