{"id":103022,"date":"2020-02-28T14:22:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-work-to-laser-proof-ships"},"modified":"2020-02-28T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T22:22:51","slug":"researchers-work-to-laser-proof-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/researchers-work-to-laser-proof-ships","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Work to Laser-Proof Ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-work-to-laser-proof-ships2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2008<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Okay, so no one has quite perfected laser weapons yet, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t at least think about possible defenses. Naval researchers are looking at materials that could deflect high-powered lasers, <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2008\/02\/26\/laser-metamaterial.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports Discovery<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-work-to-laser-proof-ships3.jpg\" alt=\"Laser_shield\" title=\"Laser_shield\"\/> \u201cIf you have a ship being hit by a laser, and it was made of this metamaterial, you could reflect the laser beam,\u201d said Simin Feng, one of the study co-authors and a researcher at China Lake.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Unlike normal materials, which derive their properties largely from the chemicals that comprise them, metamaterials are artificially made materials that get their properties from their physical structures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The material Feng and her co-author Klaus Halterman, also of China Lake, have theorized would be made of three layers of conventional materials, with the metamaterials sandwiched between the three layers. Since the material would be thin it should be easily applied and \u201cwouldn\u2019t weigh things down,\u201d said Halterman.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2008 Okay, so no one has quite perfected laser weapons yet, but that doesn\u2019t mean you can\u2019t at least think about possible defenses. Naval researchers are looking at materials that could deflect high-powered lasers, reports Discovery: \u201cIf you have a ship being hit by a laser, and it was made of this metamaterial, you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}