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One Step Closer to a True Cloaking Device

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Last year, a team at Duke announced a beta cloaking material whose special nano-properties make it “invisible” to microwaves. Today, however, researchers in Stuttgart have got something even better — a “metamaterial” that can cloak objects in the visible light spectrum. Made of gold nano-mesh, the material has a negative refraction index for visible light — that means it doesn’t reflect light, and could give the illusion of blending into the background. I can’t wait for my metamaterial full body suit for doing futuristic spy shit. Towards Cloaking Visible Light [Science Daily]

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