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Metamaterials hit the market: how the UK Metamaterials Network is turning research into reality

08 Jan 2025 Matin Durrani

Metamaterials are fast emerging from the research lab and turning up in real products. Claire Dancer and Alastair Hibbins tell Matin Durrani how the UK Metamaterials Network is helping to boost research into these fascinating structures and lower the barriers to commercialization

Anechoic chamber with acoustic absorbers on the walls
Access all areas Metamaterials are opening up new business opportunities in everything from healthcare and energy to acoustics and space science. (Courtesy: iStock/Tomasz Śmigla)
Metamaterials are artificial 3D structures that can provide all sorts of properties not available wi

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Matin Durrani is editor-in-chief of Physics World
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