Owing to the difficulty of constructing metamaterials with such extreme ... important to find recipes for self-compensating, or ‘smart’, TO scenarios. In a smart TO device, the boundary ...

“With traditional acoustic metamaterials, you create one structure and you achieve one property. With this new smart material, we can achieve multiple properties with just one structure,” co ...

Deriving useful functions from structural patterning complexity is a distinction smart materials share with a growing collection of future materials platforms, including metamaterials, 3D printing ...

Metamaterials can be featured on the walls and windows of smart buildings to control and route electromagnetic waves at will. Nanostructured metasurfaces can shrink bulky optical setups into ...

Metamaterials is a field of engineering whereby ... Now, a variety of different “smart surface” technologies are being commercialized, ranging from antennas for communications and radar ...

Can we seamlessly integrate artificial materials into the human body as smart tissues? Metamaterials are a new class of artificial materials with exotic properties, not encountered in nature (the ...

Including many aspects of physics and engineering, metamaterials offer new possibilities for developing technologies for smart cities, houses and transport and could help reduce costs, increase ...

Meanwhile, the SMART Centre team used a similar method. They glued together two pieces of calcite to form a small wedge measuring 38mm x 10mm x 2mm and is placed over an intended object. Due to ...

Origami-metamaterials that exploit reversible auxeticity ... the director of Northwestern's Center for Smart Structures and Materials. The study presents new avenues to be explored long term ...