Metamaterials and Metasurfaces: From Materials to Applications
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 893
Special Issue Editors
2. Institute of Electromagnetic Space, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China
Interests: metamaterials; metasurfaces; artificial electromagnetic metamaterials; nonlinear metasurfaces; impedance surfaces; microstrip antennas and arrays
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since the beginning of this century, metamaterials have been under the spotlight in the electromagnetic (EM) community owing to their unique EM properties, which offer powerful capabilities in controlling EM waves. Today, metasurfaces, the 2D counterparts of metamaterials, are opening up a new avenue toward new theories, novel devices, and various intriguing applications, from microwaves to optical regions, offering the advantages of a low profile, high integration, and easy fabrication.
We are pleased to invite you to share your recent investigations into metamaterials and metasurfaces, including cutting-edge theoretical findings, new functions, system applications, and other related topics. This Special Issue will serve as a forum for sharing the latest and most cutting-edge advancements with the wider scientific community.
For this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Multifunctional metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Reconfigurable intelligence metasurfaces (RISs);
- Smart metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Topological metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Time-varying metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Nonreciprocal metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Energy-harvesting metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Low-RCS metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Nonlinear metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Energy-selective metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Terahertz metamaterials/metasurfaces;
- Optical metamaterials/metasurfaces.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Zhangjie Luo
Dr. Ke Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multifunctional metamaterials/metasurfaces
- reconfigurable intelligence metasurfaces (RISs)
- smart metamaterials/metasurfaces
- topological metamaterials/metasurfaces
- time-varying metamaterials/metasurfaces
- nonreciprocal metamaterials/metasurfaces
- energy-harvesting metamaterials/metasurfaces
- low-RCS metamaterials/metasurfaces
- nonlinear metamaterials/metasurfaces
- energy-selective metamaterials/metasurfaces
- terahertz metamaterials/metasurfaces
- optical metamaterials/metasurfaces
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