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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

DEFENSE PRIMING."To compensate for this vulnerability, some plants appear to prime specific defenses in response to environmental cues that reliably indicate an increased probability of attack before they actually experience an herbivore or pathogen." https://lnkd.in/eabgX9e 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

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