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Nature 446, 364-365 (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446364a; Published online 21 March 2007
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Materials science: Unexpected tricks of the light
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- Katharine Sanderson is a reporter for Nature based in London.
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The buzz over invisibility cloaks is fun — while it lasts. But metamaterials are likely to transform optics through more mundane applications. Katharine Sanderson reports.
There is a world where objects can be made invisible, where light can be bent the wrong way, and where images of incredibly small objects can be brought into sharp focus by a superlens. That magical world doesn't sound very real, and it isn't.
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