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Volume 6 Issue 12, December 2007

Chemically tunable optical response of photonic gels made from block-copolymers

Cover design by David Shand

Letter by Kang, Walish, Gorishnyy and Thomas

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  • A recently passed bill in the US could help raise the profile of the physical sciences.

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  • Soft solids consisting of two bicontinuous, immiscible solvents separated by a tortuous membrane of small solid particles have been predicted as novel reaction media. Experimental demonstration of these materials is possible by careful treatment of the particles' surfaces.

    • Anthony D. Dinsmore
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  • Conventional metamaterials that show negative refraction suffer from high intrinsic losses and are difficult to fabricate. A novel anisotropic semiconducting metamaterial offers a solution.

    • Willie J. Padilla
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  • The vortex in a stirring solution of supramolecular fibres is shown to induce chirality in an originally achiral system. The chiral sense is reversible and can be switched by changing the direction of stirring.

    • David B. Amabilino
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  • Comparison of the vibrations of a quasicrystal with those of a conventional crystal opens the way to a better understanding of the consequences of aperiodicity on the properties of quasicrystals.

    • Ted Janssen
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  • Transition metal oxides show many interesting phenomena from high-Tc superconductivity to colossal magnetoresistance and multiferroicity, triggering intensive studies. However, we have barely tapped into their potential for applications.

    • Sang-Wook Cheong
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