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The Silk (Optics) Road

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Melinda A. Rose, [email protected]

An eco-friendly material that once united Europe and Asia in transcontinental trade shows promise for manipulating light in biosensors and more. Fiorenzo Omenetto, a biomedical engineering professor, heads the Laboratory for Ultrafast Nonlinear Optics and Biophotonics at Tufts University in Medford, Mass., where they are using silk in brand-new ways. Since joining Tufts in 2005, Omenetto has pioneered (with Dr. David Kaplan) the use of silk for photonics, optoelectronics and high-technology applications. The subject was one of the hot topics at October’s Frontiers in Optics...Read full article

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    Published: December 2012
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    metamaterial
    Metamaterials are artificial materials engineered to have properties not found in naturally occurring substances. These materials are designed to manipulate electromagnetic waves in ways that are not possible with conventional materials. Metamaterials typically consist of structures or elements that are smaller than the wavelength of the waves they interact with. Key characteristics of metamaterials include: Negative refraction index: One of the most notable features of certain...
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