Metamaterials, engineered composites designed to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum, could lead to “invisible” tanks and armored vehicles, submarines undetectable by sonar, and weapons ...

Metamaterials, which could improve smartphones and change how we use other technology, allow scientists to control light waves in new ways. By John Markoff This article is part of our new series ...

According to Grand View Research, the global metamaterials market will be worth $1.35 billion USD by 2025. Already used in industries such as aerospace and defence, metamaterials will become ...

Like the other metamaterials spinouts, Lumotive got its start at Bellevue-based Intellectual Ventures, which has been methodically mining applications of the technology for almost a decade.

A new technique involving complementary metamaterials allows high-frequency acoustic waves used in ultrasound to penetrate bone and metal by negating the properties of the so-called aberrating layers.

For context, metamaterials have seen a surge in research interest over the past two decades, with scientific publications per year rising from 66 in 2000 to just short of 17,000 in 2019. It’s easy to ...

A Stanford breakthrough in optical metamaterials could enable fabrication of a wide-spectrum invisibility cloak.

Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas at Austin and the AMOLF institute in the Netherlands have invented the first mechanical metamaterials that easily transfer motion effortlessly ...

MetaVC, a venture firm backing metamaterials startups, is joining a cohort of companies focused on science-based innovation that is sometimes called ‘deep tech.’ ...

Today in crazy tricks of physics, a few researchers over at the University of Southampton in the U.K. have theorized that metamaterials ought to be able to generate a wholly new kind of force ...