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'Nanofishnet' the First Metamaterial to Impossibly Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum

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Metamaterials hold the elusive promise of the true invisibility cloak, one that bends light right around objects to make them invisible to viewers. But most metamaterials with any kind of potential can only be fabricated in very small sizes, and even the ones that work well--and there are a few--generally don’t work in the visible spectrum.
 
Mechanics of Materials was one of my favorite college courses- particularly when the professor went off on 'transparent aluminum' from the Star Trek movie. I want to do some more reading on "metametals" This is the first I've heard of it.
 
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