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Monday, September 21, 2015

A thermal invisibility cloak actively redirects heat

Light, sound, and now, heat -- just as optical invisibility cloaks can bend and diffract light to shield an object from sight, and specially fabricated acoustic metamaterials can hide an object from sound waves, a recently developed thermal cloak can render an object thermally invisible by actively redirecting incident heat.

from Strange & Offbeat News -- ScienceDaily http://ift.tt/1OpVhCq
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