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The future of Metamaterials
- 27articles
- 2016first covered
- 9 Dec 2025latest update
- 5linked technologies
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Sci-fi adaptive camouflage gets an upgrade with synthetic Octopus skin
Chinese military invents a new invisibility cloak for drones
Researchers coax nanoparticles to reconfigure themselves to create Morphing materials
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Metamaterials goes mainstream around 2035
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- Sci-fi adaptive camouflage gets an upgrade with synthetic Octopus skinIndustry and manufacturing
- Chinese military invents a new invisibility cloak for dronesIndustry and manufacturing
- Researchers coax nanoparticles to reconfigure themselves to create Morphing materialsIndustry and manufacturing
- This 3D printed material is stronger than anything produced by natureIndustry and manufacturing
- Chinese scientists store data in the world’s first unhackable 3D printed materialSecurity and privacy
- Scientists have confirmed the weird existence of time reflectionsComputing
- This UK startup lets you buy a literal invisibility shieldIndustry and manufacturing
- Unilevers first 3D printed metamaterial chocolates take eating to a whole new levelIndustry and manufacturing
- Telekinetic and telepathic materials open the door to mental weirdnessBiotech and enhanced humans
- Nanomagnetic computing could help create ultra efficient AI’s at the edgeComputing
- Amazing new grain sized nanocamera snaps amazing hi def imagesIndustry and manufacturing
- Future wearables will be powered by your skinEarth and energy
- HyperStealth demonstrate the world’s first viable invisibility cloakIndustry and manufacturing
- Researchers created a digital metamaterial to create better cloaking devicesIndustry and manufacturing
- NASA’s revolutionary metamaterial “morphing” wing mimics birds wingsTransport and mobility
- The Future of Superyacht Design | SuperyachtNews, UK | Matthew Griffin | Luxury Keynote SpeakerArticles
- Revolutionising communications, Kymeta starts shipping metamaterial antennasIndustry and manufacturing
- This new metamaterial could turn your car into its own airbagTransport and mobility
- Harvard’s Metalense breakthrough could pave the way for real invisibility cloaksIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists have created the world’s first wormhole in a labEarth and energy
- MIT’s new AI is helping scientists design new, futuristic materialsIndustry and manufacturing
- Nanocrystal discovery turns normal glasses into night vision specsIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists use defects to create a new programmable materialIndustry and manufacturing
- Drones are fighting back against laser attacksSecurity and privacy
- Drones get new eyes in the sky with Echodynes miniature radarRobotics
- Team GB cyclists get ready to unveil their seven percent advantage at Rio 2016Biotech and enhanced humans
- New metamaterial lays the foundation for light based computingIndustry and manufacturing
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311 Institute has published 27 articles about Metamaterials since 2016, most recently on 9 December 2025.
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