We recently caught up with Muhammad Ashraf Alam, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, who's working with researchers from Purdue and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) on carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for flexible electronics. Ashraf told us that his team h...
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News Commentary | April 08, 2021
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News Commentary | June 17, 2021
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News Commentary | June 23, 2021
Researchers at Nanjing University have demonstrated a superscattering metamaterial capable of blocking the passage of microwaves through open air. The metamaterial consists of iron‑rich ceramic rods arranged along one side of a 5 cm‑wide gateway. In principle, there is no physical limit to the size ... Not part of subscription