New Trends in Metamaterials

Dear Colleagues,

Metamaterials are materials engineered to have, e.g., optical, electrical, magnetic, mechanical, or chemical properties beyond their naturally occurring counterparts. The properties of metamaterials are, thus, not only derived from the properties of the base materials they are composed of, but also, in particular, from their micro- and nanofabricated structures. In this Special Issue, we welcome contributions concerned with any aspect of the fabrication, characterisation, and applications of metamaterials of any kind. Examples are electromagnetic metasurfaces with tailored electromagnetic responses, such as broadband absorbers, metalenses, chiral structures, nanophotonic and plasmonic devices, all-dielectric metasurfaces, hyperbolic metamaterials, mechanical metamaterials with anomalous mechanical behaviors such as a negative Poisson's ratio, and negative thermal expansion. Contributions on smart nano- and micromaterials that obtain their properties from their structure, e.g., photonic crystals and near-zero-index waveguides, are also welcome.

Dr. Ada-Ioana Bunea
Prof. Dr. Andrei Lavrinenko
Prof. Dr. Rafael Taboryski
Guest Editors

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