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

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

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

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

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

There, my research aimed at understanding microscopic processes that occur on ultrafast timescale and are critical to determining the overall efficiency of energy-to-fuel conversion. Building advanced ...

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.