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Extreme light-bending power

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Metamaterials are best known for their ability to bend light in the opposite direction to that of all materials found in nature. A hidden ability of these man-made materials has now been discovered. See Letter p.369

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Figure 1: Choi and colleagues' high-refractive-index metamaterial1.

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  1. Xiang Zhang is in the NSF NanoscaleScience and Engineering Center, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720–1740, USA.,

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Zhang, X. Extreme light-bending power. Nature 470, 343–344 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/470343a

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