Invisibility Cloaks They’re for more than just sneaking around Hogwarts.
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Invisibility CloaksThey’re for more than just sneaking around Hogwarts.
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Scientists created metamaterials that trick waves into thinking they have special properties.
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Metamaterials are structured materials that are created by scientists altering their geometry, not the atoms that make up the substance.
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Created from taking 1 cm2 of silk and adding 10,000 gold spiral resonators.
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The current design is invisible to waves in the Terahertz wavelength.
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Silk is the first biocompatible metamaterial.
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This new technology has the potential to be of great use in the medical industry
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"Invisibility Cloak Made From Silk." Discovery News. Discovery Communications, 2010. Web. 3 Sep 2010. <http://news.discovery.com/tech/silk- invisibility-cloak.html>.
Smith, David R. "Electromagnetic Metamaterials." Meta Group. Duke University, 2009. Web. 3 Sep 2010. <http://people.ee.duke.edu/~drsmith/about_metamaterials.html>.
Zarowny, Andrew. "Silk Invisibility Cloak – New MetaMaterial." Right Pundents. Star Struck, 12 Aug 2010. Web. 1 Sep 2010. <http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6996>.