A smattering of opinions on technology, books, business, and culture. Now in its 4th technology iteration.
11 August 2009
Oriented Assembly of Metamaterials – Stebe et al. 325 5937: 159 – Science – good article.
“Such metamaterials may, for example, be used to create cloaking devices or light-based circuits based on manipulations of local optical electric fields rather than on the flow of electrons.”
“The challenge now is to move from hit-or-miss assemblies of academic interest to the creation of technologically relevant devices that combine particle and patterned assembly via large-scale processes.”
It is this latter challenge I find most interesting.