metamaterial rings efficiently absorbs microwave radiation

A new topic of research, from the last quarter of the twentieth century, with slow development to possible practical applications in instrumentation, both on Earth, and in robotic and manned spaceflight equipment.
A general account of energy re-direction to a novel and currently unused path. Lots of general imagined uses for the current century science community. We may be cooking and looking with devices built from related concept materials. We may also be computing with them soon.
A scientific American alert link for your sourcing of the real research by a few of the researchers listed and linked.
Can these concepts apply to activity on Mars by materials found there?