Engineers have fabricated a metamaterial that is not only strong but also stretchy. Their new method could enable stretchable ceramics, glass, and metals, for tear-proof textiles or stretchy ...

A team of MIT researchers developed a new fabrication method that allowed to make existing materials strong but stretchy.

The material could someday be used in flexible semiconductors, tear-resistant textiles, bioengineering scaffolds, and more.

A new scientific machine learning framework developed by Professors Horacio D. Espinosa, Sridhar Krishnaswamy, and ...

What are metamaterials and what can they do? The prefix meta (a Greek word meaning ‘beyond’) indicates that the characteristics of the material are beyond what we see in nature. Metamaterials are a ...

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

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is ...

While composed of sub-wavelength structures, Frequency Selective Surfaces are capable of manipulating electromagnetic ...

MIT engineers have developed a new metamaterial that is both strong and stretchy, overcoming the usual trade-off between ...

In metamaterials design, the name of the game has long been “stronger is better.” Metamaterials are synthetic materials with microscopic structures that give the overall material exceptional ...