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 ...

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 ...

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 ...