Month: September 2022

ONLY NINE YEARS OLD. "Pendry and others also developed a mathematical tool called transformation optics to describe how a metamaterial should be structured to have the desired properties." https://lnkd.in/e_Auavs View in LinkedIn

NEW APPROACH. "Metamaterials is in fact not materials but a new way of thinking."(p. 56). https://lnkd.in/erpUSMu View in LinkedIn

METAMATERIAL UNIQUENESS. "It's not only size. It's the very combination of size, the material and the material's geometry, its structure. What makes metamaterials unique is that these aspects are not independent of one another anymore." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

THE SNOWFLAKE AND THE GLACIER. "Metamaterials have unique properties because they interact with forces at the nanoscale in ways that we can only explain using quantum mechanics. If we scaled those structures up to a meter or a kilometer, they would no longer exhibit the same properties." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

NO LONGER SLAVES. "Metamaterials are teaching us that we are no longer slaves to coupled properties...density has always been coupled to every single mechanical attribute. So lightweight materials like aluminum have always been weaker than denser materials like steel." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

CHANGING THE CHIP. "What our work showed us that you can reduce weight by several orders of magnitude while retaining exactly the same strength, there's no coupling of density and strength. It really shifts the way we think about materials." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN 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

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

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