Soft Metamaterials: Self-gauged Assembly, Non-equilibrium Matters, and 3D Super-resolution Imaging

摘要

Metamaterials are artificial composite structures that lead to many exciting applications beyond nature such as imaging objects below the diffraction limit, optical clocking, sensing and communications. Traditional metamaterials are considered as "hard" materials that structural units cannot be tailored after their formation which limits their material responses and applications. It remains a critical and unsolved problem to design "soft metamaterials" that can spontaneously self-adapt to changes in the source wavelength or the environment.