Acoustic metamaterials are a fast-evolving family of materials which manipulate sound waves in ever more advanced ways. Now, a team led by Changqing Xu at Nanjing Normal University in China has ...
Researchers have revealed how high-frequency sound waves can be used to build new materials, make smart nanoparticles and even deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations. While ...
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Sound waves may let researchers remotely tune material stiffness on demand
A team co-led by UC San Diego and the University of Michigan reports that short pulses of sound could remotely drag a structural defect through a metamaterial lattice, potentially letting researchers ...
In the context of sensory modalities, eyes work like tiny antennae, picking up light, electromagnetic waves traveling at blistering speeds. When humans look at the world, their eyes catch these waves ...
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Researchers build ultra-precise phonon lasers to control sound waves
Engineers have built the first fully solid-state phonon laser on a single chip, generating surface acoustic waves at about 1 gigahertz with unprecedented precision. The device, which uses a lithium ...
Researchers have revealed how high-frequency sound waves can be used to build new materials, make smart nanoparticles and even deliver drugs to the lungs for painless, needle-free vaccinations. While ...
"When we couple high-frequency sound waves into fluids, materials and cells, the effects are extraordinary," he says. "We've harnessed the power of these sound waves to develop innovative biomedical ...
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