For their new study, the team fabricated a metamaterial by combining two microscopic architectures. The first is a rigid, ...

Typically, these structures combine to enable properties that are usually compatible, including strength combined with ...

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

Credit: Surjadi et al, MIT The metamaterial's structure is so tiny that MIT's samples range from "several square microns to several square millimeters" across, according to the institute.

For a long time, scientists have been working to make materials that are stronger and stiffer. This is especially true in the ...

For their new study, the team fabricated a metamaterial by combining two microscopic architectures. The first is a rigid, grid-like scaffold of struts and trusses. The second is a pattern of coils ...

Engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created a flexible and durable metamaterial made of acrylic plastic.

Relaxation model is absent in metamaterial research ... Polarization is very fundamental in revealing the microscopic mechanisms of macroscopic EM properties of dielectrics.

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition.