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STRUCTURAL RELATIVES. "Transient receptor potential (TRP) channels are diverse six-transmembrane domain (6-TM) cation channels that are related to, and share, the transmembrane topology and functional domain structure of the tetrameric voltage-gated ion channels." https://lnkd.in/ecaVp5Q View in LinkedIn

SEEING THROUGH WALLS. "We propose to use transformation optics to generate a general illusion such that an arbitrary object appears to be like some other object of our choice." https://lnkd.in/eyBstN6 View in LinkedIn

SUPERFAMILY. "These channels are classified into subfamilies, namely canonical (TRPC), melastatin (TRPM), ankyrin (TRPA), and vanilloid (TRPV). Some of these channels are activated by heat (TRPM2/4/5, TRPV1-4), while others by cold (TRPA1, TRPC5, and TRPM8)." https://lnkd.in/eZQCjnY View in LinkedIn

PEEP HOLE. "The researchers have even found a mind-boggling application. Their idea is to create the illusion that a wall has a hole in it, and then use the hole to look through the wall. That’s not quite as bonkers as it sounds. The wall has to be pretty thin, and what the new device does is allow light to tunnel through the wall in a way that would not ordinarily be possible. Amazing, if it works." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

SUPERFAMILY. "A class of ion channels that belongs to the transient receptor potential (TRP) superfamily and is present in specialized neurons that project to the skin has evolved as temperature detectors." https://lnkd.in/eZQCjnY View in LinkedIn

STEP TWO. "The second step is to then distort this plane wave in the way that an elephant would. This means creating transformational material that distorts a plane lightwave in the same way as an elephant. So anybody looking at this mouse would instead see an elephant." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

TRPA1 SUPERFAMILY. "TRPV1 and TRPV2 are activated by heat in the noxious range (>42°C and >52°C, respectively), whereas TRPA1 is reported to be activated by noxious cold (

STEP ONE. "So a plane wave would be bent by the mouse but then bent back into a plane as it passes through the complementary material, making the mouse disappear." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn

TRPA1 SUPERFAMILY. "TRPs are cation-selective channels that exhibit varying degrees of calcium permeability and respond to a wide range of stimuli (eg, temperature, mechanical, osmolarity, chemical). A subset of TRP channels is activated by different temperatures (eg, TRPV1-4, TRPM8, and TRPA1)." https://lnkd.in/ey47aVM View in LinkedIn

STEP ONE. "The trick is to create a material in which the permittivity and permeability are complementary to the values in a nearby region of space containing the mouse we want to hide. “Complementary” means that the material cancels out the effect that the mouse has on a plane lightwave passing through." https://lnkd.in/exKwCuQ View in LinkedIn