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Advanced Materials Technologies
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Invisible High-Resolution Fingerprint Sensors
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Complete Freedom for Direct Writing Liquid Metal Patterns
Prof. Jungchul Lee reports a four degrees-of-freedom direct writing technique for liquid metal patterns.
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Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have prepared all-metallic metasurfaces as wide-angle microwave diffusers.
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