30 April 2016, 08:35 GMT
Dubbed as “meta-skin” the new material consists of several layers of silicon elastomers each consisting of 225 identical resonators filled with galinstan, a metal alloy of gallium, indium and tin.
During a series of tests the resonators — small rings 2.5 millimeters across and half a millimeter thick – suppressed up to 75 percent of radar waves in the frequency range of 8 to 10 gigahertz.
According to Iowa University’s website, the developers of the meta-skin technology expect it to replace all existing stealth technology and hope that it may someday help create a cloak of invisibility.
