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Turning a negative into a positive

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Metamaterials are synthetic materials tailored with unusual properties that are not found in nature. It has now been predicted that they could be engineered with negative refractive index through the use of periodic structures via bottom-up self-assembly synthesis.

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Figure 1: Schematic routes to 3D co-continuous metamaterials with cubic symmetry.

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  1. Jackie Y. Ying is in the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, 31 Biopolis Way, The Nanos, Singapore 138669,

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Ying, J. Turning a negative into a positive. Nature Chem 4, 159–160 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1275

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