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Beyond metamaterials

The realization of metamaterials with a negative index of refraction has created great opportunities for novel applications. John Pendry talks to Nature Materials about his key contributions to the field and his passion for physics.

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Beyond metamaterials. Nature Mater 5, 763–764 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1740

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