1. Bringing metamaterials to creative industries and hospitals
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Memoli, Gianluca, speaker
- Abstract
According to different recent market research reports, acoustic metamaterials are quickly going up the TRL scale, moving to applications. In this talk, I will therefore present two examples of applications: one relative to sound delivery and one to noise management, both for audible frequencies in air. First, I will describe how combinations of metasurfaces can be used to achieve sound delivery with wavelength precision at variable distances, for creative applications. I will touch on the possibility of applying the thin-lens equation and on the verification of COMSOL simulations using human volunteers. Secondly, I will discuss how my team came to design meta-material based movable panels to COVID wards. I will touch on the criticality of noise in hospitals, on the specific combination of unit cells that we used and on the challenges to test the performance of our panels using standard techniques, both in the laboratory and in-situ.
- Published
- 2021
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