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In G. Wells’ famous novel, a scientist invented a way to change the refractive index of his body to that of air so that it adsorbed and reflected no light, becoming invisible. Besides its science fiction, it is interesting to consider how the optical properties of matter can be controlled and engineered.
Either a body absorbs light or it reflects or refracts it or does all these things. If it neither reflects nor refracts nor absorbs light, it can not itself be visible.
(The Invisible Man, George H. Wells, 1897)
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Salvatore, S. (2015). Introduction. In: Optical Metamaterials by Block Copolymer Self-Assembly. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05332-5_1
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