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NEGATIVELY REFRACTIVE CHIRAL METAMATERIALS. "Chirality extends the class of negatively refracting metamaterials by endowing a richer palette of electromagnetic properties. Millions of research dollars have been spent during the last decade on this topic, following experimental reports of negative refraction in certain metamaterials under microwave illumination...negative refraction is not exclusive to artificial metamaterials: certain biological structures and naturally occurring minerals also exhibit negative refraction." https://lnkd.in/dZSW9Fz View in LinkedIn

BRILLIANT WORK on metamaterials driven by profound mathematical insights into the physical properties of materials. A lovely read. https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-18-14-14553&id=202793 View in LinkedIn

PREDICTION. "Recently, it was predicted that strong enough optical activity may result in negative refraction and negative reflection." https://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=oe-18-14-14553&seq=0 View in LinkedIn

"CHIRAL METAMATERIALS (CMMs), which are artificial materials that lack any planes of mirror symmetry, possess strong ability to rotate the plane of polarization of electromagnetic waves. This ability is called optical activity which is of great interest to many areas of science, for example, analytical chemistry and molecular biology." https://www.osapublishing.org/viewmedia.cfm?uri=oe-18-14-14553&seq=0 View in LinkedIn

METAMATERIALS SOLVE CASIMIR EFFECT. "Negative index metamaterials (NIMs) give rise to many unusual properties and phenomena, which may lead to important applications such as a superlens, subwavelength cavity and slow light device." https://lnkd.in/dZPk28x View in LinkedIn

SUB-WAVELENGTH PATTERNING. "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/dQXTH9K View in LinkedIn

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THE ASYMMETRIC UNIVERSE. "Ferroelectricity is an example of the general phenomenon in which a system can be switched between two states of orientation by the application of a force. These phenomena are essential for many organic, biological molecules, and all living systems in our asymmetric universe." https://lnkd.in/eBe5QYb View in LinkedIn