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Stretchable metamaterials fabricated on plastic substrates could provide dynamic photonic properties for applications from chemical sensing to invisibility cloaking.
A liquid crystal-like transition between isotropic and nematic phases in liquid suspensions of graphene oxide holds promise for a range of applications.