That's a real, er, stretch. But it's exactly what a team of researchers at MIT are claiming their new "strong but stretchy" metamaterial could enable. A metamaterial, in case you're wondering ...

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 ...

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.

Relaxation model is absent in metamaterial research. Polarization is one of the most important electromagnetic (EM) properties of dielectric materials. The essence of polarization is electron ...

Now a team has taken inspiration from origami to create a modular metamaterial system. These units couple twisting movement with compression or expansion, and by combining these modules in ...

A recent study published in Nature Communications introduces a new metamaterial, called Roliner, designed as a soft, adaptive human-machine interface for wearable devices. Roliner is made from ...

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.