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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

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

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

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

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

ONLY NINE YEARS OLD. "The first metamaterials were built in 2006 by a team that included John Pendry at Imperial College London and David Smith at Duke University in North Carolina. Pendry, Smith and colleagues created artificial materials with negative indices of refraction – properties that do not normally occur in natural materials." https://lnkd.in/e_Auavs View in LinkedIn

SIZE OF THE GLUE. "In photonic metamaterials, for example, the structures are comparable in size to the wavelengths of light they interact with. In my mechanical metamaterials, the repeating structures approach the scales of the links that hold the materials together." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

MATCHING SIZES. "The "meta" part emerges when we get into the nanoscale realm. This is when the dimensions within the structure approach the dimensions of whatever energy is exciting it." https://lnkd.in/eBD2wFN View in LinkedIn

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