Metamaterials Through the Prism of Biology
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: metamaterials; plasmonics
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Dear Colleagues,
The potential of metamaterials, which enable the manipulation of electromagnetic waves beyond conventional material limits, has attracted the attention of scientists and engineers in recent decades. Novel features, including broadband ultraslow light, invisibility cloaking, and subwavelength imaging, have resulted from this breakthrough. Man-made architectural materials having special physical characteristics, such as the capacity to change equivalent permittivities in various directions by meticulous structural design, are known as metamaterials in the optical frequency region. Because the methods for characterizing disordered media may be used for the examination of biological tissue, the unique properties of disordered metamaterials make them useful instruments for simulating the geometry of biological tissue. With cells dispersed at random utilizing the metamaterial formalism technique, the structure of disordered metamaterial in this case resembles the "pattern" of biological tissue. By seeing biological tissue through the lens of metamaterials, it is possible to homogenize it and identify diseased spots within it based on its effective qualities, which makes it possible to detect cancerous regions. This Special Issue is dedicated to the examination of the metamaterial phenomenon through the “biological prism”.
Prof. Dr. Tatjana Gric
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metamaterial
- disorder
- cancer
- disease
- biological tissue
- permittivity
- effective medium approximation
- random media
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