How metamaterials bend the paths of electromagnetic radiation (i.e. refraction) drives their peculiar applications. For example, a metamaterial invisibility cloak would bend the paths of light waves ...

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

Physicists from Duke University unveil the world's first-ever invisibility cloak. (Thanks, J.K. Rowling!) The elaborate set-up was created using metamaterials, which are capable of manipulating ...

Metamaterials are designed to have unique ... Examples include super-lenses to view objects at the molecular scale; invisibility cloaks, which refract all visible light; and perfect wave ...

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 ...

Specific topics include sub-wavelength waveguiding and focusing, super-resolution imaging and nano-lithography beyond the diffraction limit of the light, negative refraction, and invisibility cloaking ...

Watch particles become invisible in a simulation by Milton and his collaborators » At this stage, Milton said he wouldn't go as far as to promise that this kind of invisibility cloak would work ...

Metamaterials are artificially-structured materials with extraordinary properties not easily found in nature. With engineered three-dimensional (3D) geometries at the micro- and nanoscale, these ...