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03-18-2016, 01:00 AM
There's a flexible material that can make you invisible to radar
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When most people think of invisibility cloaks, they think of something from Harry Potter (http://mashable.com/category/harry-potter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), donning a fabric that makes you blend right into the background. That might help you sneak into the restricted section of your school library, but that won’t fool radars
A team of engineers at Iowa State University published a research paper (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21921) detailing the use of flexible metamaterials — man-made materials that have properties **t found in nature — to cloak objects from microwave radar detection.
See also: Paging Harry Potter: Scientists create first super-thin invisibility cloak (http://mashable.com/2015/09/17/ultrathin-invisibility-cloak/)
The team dubbed the radar-absorbing metamaterial "meta-skin," which consists of a matrix of liquid metal split-ring resonators embedded in layers of silicone rubber. The liquid metal alloy is a mix of gallium and indium called galinstan, which stays liquid at room temperature but is **t toxic like mercury. These split-ring resonators work by absorbing radar waves within specific frequency ranges. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/flexible-invisible-radar/)
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When most people think of invisibility cloaks, they think of something from Harry Potter (http://mashable.com/category/harry-potter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), donning a fabric that makes you blend right into the background. That might help you sneak into the restricted section of your school library, but that won’t fool radars
A team of engineers at Iowa State University published a research paper (http://www.nature.com/articles/srep21921) detailing the use of flexible metamaterials — man-made materials that have properties **t found in nature — to cloak objects from microwave radar detection.
See also: Paging Harry Potter: Scientists create first super-thin invisibility cloak (http://mashable.com/2015/09/17/ultrathin-invisibility-cloak/)
The team dubbed the radar-absorbing metamaterial "meta-skin," which consists of a matrix of liquid metal split-ring resonators embedded in layers of silicone rubber. The liquid metal alloy is a mix of gallium and indium called galinstan, which stays liquid at room temperature but is **t toxic like mercury. These split-ring resonators work by absorbing radar waves within specific frequency ranges. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/17/flexible-invisible-radar/)
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