An Implantable Antenna
To think Marco Polo didn't even know what he had. Silk and gold, considered luxury items for as long as mankind has enjoyed shiny things, might now lead the way forward in the growing field of metamaterials. Turning flashy into inconspicuous, scientists from Tufts and Boston University have created an invisibility cloak from silk coated with gold. But keep your Harry Potter-like aspirations in check; this invisibility material only works in the terahertz range, a long wavelength region between radio and IR. The researchers think it could work at smaller wavelengths, including those in the visible spectrum, but that's not even their focus right now. Far more promising are the implications in biomedicine, as silk is a biocompatible material. Related ArticlesNew Metamaterials Could Produce Sonar Cloaking DeviceEngineered Metamaterials Could Recreate the Birth of Extra-Dimensional Universes in the LabCustom-Made Metamaterials Could Show Scientists a Tabletop Big Bang TagsScience, Clay Dillow, invisibility cloaks,
An Implantable Antenna
A prototype silk biosensor could someday alert doctors to signs of disease. Silk and gold, usually a pairing for the runways of Milan, are now the main ingredients for a new kind of implantable ...
Tue 17 Aug 10 from MIT Technology Review
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing
Researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and Boston University have fabricated and characterized the first large area metamaterial structures patterned on implantable, bio-compatible ...
Thu 12 Aug 10 from PhysOrg
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing, Fri 13 Aug 10 from ScienceDaily
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, Fri 13 Aug 10 from R&D Mag
New Silk Material Could Advance Biomedicine, Fri 13 Aug 10 from RedOrbit
New Silk Material Could Advance Biomedicine, Thu 12 Aug 10 from RedOrbit
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing, Thu 12 Aug 10 from R&D Mag
Implantable silk metamaterials could advance biomedicine, biosensing, Thu 12 Aug 10 from e! Science News
Silk 'invisibility cloak' created by scientists
Scientists have created an "invisibility cloak" - able to bend light around solid objects - out of silk.
Thu 12 Aug 10 from Telegraph.co.uk Science
Silk 'Invisibility Cloak' Could Lead to Better Biocompatible Metamaterials
To think Marco Polo didn't even know what he had. Silk and gold, considered luxury items for as long as mankind has enjoyed shiny things, might now lead the way forward in the growing field ...
Wed 11 Aug 10 from Popular Science
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