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NATURE'S FECUNDITY. "I think it's a mistake to define metamaterials in terms of properties not found in nature, simply because it's really hard to create things that don't exist in nature." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

UNNATURAL SELECTION. "By controlling a material's nanostructure, researchers have been able to produce materials with properties unknown or almost impossible to achieve in nature. Those structures can interact with light and electromagnetic waves in unusual ways. Recently, metamaterials have shown unusual physical behaviors as well." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

DESIGNED STRUCTURES. "Metamaterials derive their properties not from the properties of the base materials, but from their designed structure. Their precise shape, geometry, size, orientation and arrangement gives them their properties." https://lnkd.in/eMWCxE4 View in LinkedIn

IMPACT OF METAMATERIALS (MM). "By providing access to new realms of material response, MMs have and will continue to impact the fields of physics, materials science, engineering, optics, nanotechnology, and many others branches of science." https://lnkd.in/ePVzVDS View in LinkedIn

"METAMATERIALS are materials engineered to have properties that have not yet been found in nature. They are made from assemblies of multiple elements fashioned from conventional materials such as metals or plastics. The materials are usually arranged in repeating patterns, often at microscopic or smaller scales that are smaller than the wavelengths of the phenomena they influence." https://lnkd.in/eMWCxE4 View in LinkedIn

ROSE PETAL SUPERHYDROPHOBICITY is a consequence of nanostructure. https://lnkd.in/esy9biK View in LinkedIn

NEW MATERIALS AND INVISIBILITY. Metamaterials have been developed with unique properties, including negative refractive indexes. This seemingly innocent finding has led to the development of cloaking technology (invisibility), and subsequently, to the jaw-dropping concept of cloaking time to hide events. While both are very new developments, and at very early stages, the implications are significant, to say the least. View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURES SHAPES PROPERTIES. "It's the same atom. But the architecture, the geometry and the atoms, give us totally different properties." Shape affects taste. https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

CUT GRASS SMELL. "The sweet smell of new mown grass is in fact an alarm signal from the wounded leaf cells that switches on the grass defence system. The 'green grass smell' is predominantly one aldehyde (trans-2-hexanal) with two other aldehydes and alcohols adding subtler notes." Memories of a boy stuck in Latin class. https://lnkd.in/e7UQ_sh View in LinkedIn

STRUCTURES SHAPES PROPERTIES. "Nature also shows us how structure shapes properties. If we start with carbon atoms, we can form very hard diamonds or graphite that is soft enough to rub off when we use it in pencils." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn