Russia successfully researched stealth metamaterials

A team of researchers at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST MISIS) in Moscow, Russia has successfully created a unique metamaterial that can help stealth military vehicles, scientific magazines Physical Review.

According to the Physical Review, this metamaterial can not be found in nature. It is capable of acting on electromagnetic waves such as blocking, absorbing, enhancing or bending which makes it invisible to the waves. This material can be used extensively in the development of new weapons or supercomputers.

Project Manager Alexei Basharin holds on hand materials capable of making stealthed military vehicles.

This stealth project was carried out by a team of NUST MISIS scientists in collaboration with the University of Crete in Greece. In 2016, Russia and Greece signed a memorandum of understanding on quantum technology cooperation and a joint financial program for the study.

"The experimental part of the study is to create a metamaterial made up of a flat network of so-called super-molecules cut from ordinary steel blocks ," said project director Alexei Basharin .

Basharin added that because of its distinctive molecular structure and shape, scientists have created a completely unique material. In addition to stealth, metamaterials can also be used to manufacture super-sensitive sensors that can detect chemical weapons and explosives.

Nabil MISIS said in a statement: "With the addition of nonlinear semiconductor materials, metamaterials can be adapted to stealth technology, helping invisible military vehicles. infrared waves, radio waves, and other waves. The Russian Satellite Information Agency (RSCC) and other space organizations have expressed interest in the new material. "