The global metamaterials market is projected to escalate from USD 1.55 billion today to USD 17.44 billion by 2035, growing at a robust CAGR of 27.36%. Originally hindered by the limitations of ...

A research team of Professor Yan Chen from the Tianjin University presents a reconfigurable hierarchical metamaterial, establishes a linear relationship between its stiffness and the number of active ...

Metamaterials—artificially made materials with properties that aren't found in the natural world—are poised to transform ...

After decades of physics-based theorizing, researchers have succeeded in creating a novel optical metamaterial using conventional materials. Its enhanced electromagnetic effect may make true one-way ...

What they developed is called a metamaterial, which describes a synthetic material engineered to have capabilities that naturally occurring materials cannot. Your phone’s antenna is a metamaterial, as ...

The number of ways to harvest energy that would otherwise go unused and wasted is extraordinary. To cite a few of the many examples, there’s the heat given off during almost any physical or electronic ...

Inspired by the remarkable adaptability observed in biological organisms like the octopus, a breakthrough has been achieved soft machines. A research team, led by Professor Jiyun Kim in the Department ...

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What do the Hoover Dam, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Wall of China and the Pantheon have in common? They’re all examples of incredible, ambitious concrete construction. But our most widely used ...

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