The same invisibility cloak that made Harry Potter invisible ans rendered his opponents defenseless against the teenage wizard’s powers, could soon become a reality, if the researchers and scientists at the Imperial College have their way. This bunch of genius academics have stated that, they are close to devise a material that would manipulate light and make the wearer of the material, invisible.

The research team the Imperial College has received a massive $4.9 pounds funding from Leverhulme Trust for the development of the ‘meta materials’ that are considered to be the vital components in the invisible cloak. Apart from the cloaking clothes, the meta materials have other highly useful applications as well such as, they can be implemented in security detection sensors, capable of detecting expletive substances. The other applications of these materials is in the field of optical physics, where they can be used in the creation of flat lenses, capable of imaging small objects, smaller than the size of the wavelength of light.

The grant given to the Imperial College, is part of an ongoing initiative by Leverhulme Trust for ‘embedding emerging disciplines’. The entire project is led by two professors from the Imperial College. Prof. Sir John Pendry, a world renowned physicist and the brain child between the cloaking material theory, who first proposed the use of meta materials for the project in the year 2006. The second team leader is Prof. Stefan Maier, who is a leading experimentalist in the field of plasmonics.

Via Daily Mail.