DNA tethers guide the self-assembly of colloidal metal nanoparticles into three-dimensional optical metamaterials. The observation of epsilon-near-zero behaviour in nanoparticle-based materials indicates that bottom-up assembly may be a viable solution to current challenges in the manufacture of metamaterials.
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Tao, A. Metamaterials go Gattaca. Nature Photon 8, 6–8 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2013.351
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