{"id":23208,"date":"2016-03-07T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:44:35","slug":"new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018meta-skin\u2019 to cloak objects from radars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New skin for keeping you under the radar.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Because the meta-skin is stretchable, it can be pulled tight to augment the range of radar frequencies trapped by the resonators.<\/p>\n<p>The project set out to prove that that electromagnetic waves \u2014 \u201cperhaps even the shorter wavelengths of visible light\u201d \u2014 can be adequately suppressed with flexible, tunable liquid-metal technologies. The material is made up of rows of rings, with a radius of 0.1 inches (2.5mm) and gaps of 0.04 inches (1mm). They\u2019re filled with galinstan, a metal alloy that remains liquid at room temperatures and is less toxic than metals who share this property, such as mercury. Each resonator acts like a small curved piece of liquid wire.<\/p>\n<p>The rings create electric inductors and the gaps create electric capacitors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/la-kabylie.com\/2016\/03\/07\/new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars\/\">http:\/\/la-kabylie.com\/2016\/03\/07\/new-meta-skin-to-cloak-objects-from-radars\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New skin for keeping you under the radar. Because the meta-skin is stretchable, it can be pulled tight to augment the range of radar frequencies trapped by the resonators. The project set out to prove that that electromagnetic waves \u2014 \u201cperhaps even the shorter wavelengths of visible light\u201d \u2014 can be adequately suppressed with flexible, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62519,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/62519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}