A team of researchers led by Guoliang Huang, a professor at the University of Missouri, has developed a prototype metamaterial that challenges Newton’s
For more than 10 years, Guoliang Huang, the Huber and Helen Croft Chair in Engineering at the University of Missouri, has been investigating the unconventional properties of "metamaterials" an artificial material that exhibits properties not commonly found in nature as defined by Newton's laws of motion in his long-term pursuit of designing an ideal metamaterial.
In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Guoliang Huang at the University of Missouri and colleagues have developed a prototype metamaterial that uses electrical signals to control both the direction and intensity of energy waves passing through a solid material. Potential applications of his innovative design include military and commercial uses, such as controlling radar waves by directing them to scan a specific area for objects or managing vibration created by air turbulence from an aircraft in flight.
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