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MM: Aiming For Invisibility With A Stretchy, Tunable Meta-Skin

In this episode, engineers at Iowa State University have created a flexible skin that can suppress radar detection and, hopefully with material advancement, make objects completely invisible to both visible and infrared light.

In this episode, engineers at Iowa State University have created a flexible skin that can suppress radar detection and, hopefully with material advancement, make objects completely invisible to both visible and infrared light. Learn how it works here:

SO, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

Other than military applications, what uses do you see for this material? What problems do you see with the future development of the meta-skin?

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