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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.