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Originally Posted by Despare
Negative Refraction One new metamaterial, described in Science, is a microscopic arrangement of silver wires—each about 20 times thinner than a human hair—embedded in aluminum oxide.
The other metamaterial, detailed online in Nature, is a layer cake of alternating nanoscale strips of silver and magnesium fluoride that were cut into a fishnet pattern.
Both materials exhibit negative refraction—bending visible light in a different direction than expected in nature.
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Very interesting compounds. And both are abundantly found in nature too.
I like the way this research is headed.