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Helping sound out of the water

Material could help with monitoring marine creatures’ sounds.
Technology aiming to eavesdrop on marine mammals could get a boost from a metamaterial that improves sound transmission.

Technology aiming to eavesdrop on marine mammals could get a boost from a metamaterial that improves sound transmission. Credit: Mike Clark/Alamy

An engineered material can efficiently transmit sound between water and air.

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Nature 554, 8 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-00839-3

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