Innovations & technologies
Invisibility is one of science’s greatest White Whales, but researchers at Queen Mary University of London are one step closer to creating a material that can make objects disappear.
What’s more, the researchers worked with UK industry to demonstrate the cloaking device, which doesn’t exactly make something invisible. Rather, it uses a nanocomposite medium to make raised objects appear flat. It has seven distinct layers with electric properties, hiding an object that would’ve caused surface waves to be scattered.
The results, which were published Friday in
Scientific Reports, is ensuring that us nerds might achieve invisibility at some point, but it also has the potential for wider applications in engineering, optics, and acoustics. It could be applied to anything relating to electromagnetic surface waves, according to researchers.
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