Materials for optics articles within Nature Chemistry

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• News & Views | 21 February 2012

  Turning a negative into a positive

  Metamaterials are synthetic materials tailored with unusual properties that are not found in nature. It has now been predicted that they could be engineered with negative refractive index through the use of periodic structures via bottom-up self-assembly synthesis.

  • Jackie Y. Ying

• News & Views | 24 January 2012

  Manipulating molecules

  Valuable insight into the use of lasers to control electron dynamics can be gained by simulations, but these are often limited by the uncertainty in the model systems used. Now, accurate calculations of controlled electron motion in benzene improve on this, while showing that its aromaticity could potentially be 'switched off'.

  • Katharine Moore
  •  & Herschel Rabitz