Metamaterials based on Islamic art
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.029662
BBC : Metamaterials have specific unusual properties that don’t occur in nature, such as changing to predetermined shapes when heat is applied to them. At the American Physical Society’s March meeting in Baltimore, Maryland Ahmad Rafsanjani from McGill University in Montreal talked about some new metamaterials based on Islamic art. Many aspects of Islamic art contain geometric patterns, and Rafsanjani and his colleagues discovered that two of them allow laser-perforated rubber sheets to become wider when stretched instead of narrower. Applications could include developing new foldable solar panels for satellites or medical applications for keyhole surgery.
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Paul Guinnessy, pguinnes@aip.org
