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What’s better than being a scientist named Krzysztof Matyjaszewski? Being a scientist named Krzysztof Matyjaszewski who has invented a way to make nanoparticles “invisible”.  I’m uncertain as to the usage of the quotation marks over there, because they aren’t faking being invisible, they really are.  Visible to the naked eye, anyway.

Basically, nanomaterials are often whitish in color, or milky, due to the way they refract light.  By combining them with a polymer,  Matyjaszewski and pal Michael Bockstaller had produced a way to “grease” the light on through, as Matyjaszewski says.  And I can never argue with a scientist who says that photons can be greased up.

And while Bockstaller says the invisible materials have use in the “aerospace and cosmetics industry” I think what he means by this is UFOs and cyberpunk urban camouflage cloaks.  Or some kind of new and totally revolutionary Apple product that is packed to the gills with DRM and costs more than your mother’s hip surgery.

Secretive and teaser-y article here at Scientific Blogging.