The team that managed to demonstrate the first practical “invisibility cloak” or “cloaking device” using a sheet of superheated carbon nanotubes one molecule thick submerged in water is at it again, only this time, they’re aiming to get it to work in the air, a considerably harder task, given the different properties of the material, but one that promises to make the technology much more practical.“In water you get large light bending angles,” said Ray Baughman, a researcher at the Alan G. MacDiarmid NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas and one of the trio of scientists who authored a paper on the water-based mirage effect.
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