Metamaterials are carefully engineered materials that possess desirable properties and can be used to manipulate ...

New research shows robotic materials can learn and adapt without software, storing behavior directly in their structure.

From the geometric symmetry in Islamic tiles to the mechanical versatility of origami, cultural patterns have an extensive ...

Learn how ancient Chinese characters are inspiring 3D-printed metamaterials, blending cultural history with modern ...

A coating that can hide objects in plain sight, or an implant that behaves exactly like bone tissue—these extraordinary objects are already made from "metamaterials." Researchers from TU Delft have ...

Metamaterials are rationally designed macroscopic structures engineered to respond to external excitations in a tailorable and unconventional fashion. This allows them to achieve properties that are ...

John Pendry is known for creating an invisibility cloak. Twenty years on, he has used the same principles to fashion an even ...

(Yicai) April 23 -- Scientists from China and Singapore have developed a new printing technique for multiscale optical ...

Owing to the wave nature of light there are many ways that such different waves can interact with each other, but also with materials. Everyone knows about reflecting light with a mirror, which is a ...