MIT engineers have now found a way to fabricate a metamaterial that is both strong and stretchy. The base material is typically highly rigid and brittle, but it is printed in precise, intricate ...

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.

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 ...

The invention is a metamaterial, which is a material engineered to feature new and unusual properties that depend on the material's physical structure rather than its chemical composition.

That's a real, er, stretch. But it's exactly what a team of researchers at MIT are claiming their new "strong but stretchy" metamaterial could enable. A metamaterial, in case you're wondering ...

"By defining a clever arrangement of the rods, we then integrated this mechanism into a metamaterial." The scientists compare this mechanism to a classic bending spring, whose maximum deformation ...

An origami-inspired ‘metamaterial’ has been engineered to have properties not found in natural materials — enabling it to undergo large, reversible deformations. Read the paper: Modular ...

Relaxation model is absent in metamaterial research. Polarization is one of the most important electromagnetic (EM) properties of dielectric materials. The essence of polarization is electron ...