Artificial Atoms Could Harness the Secret Power of Metamaterials
The superlattices used in metamaterials can be built using crystals called “artificial atoms.” What exactly are these tiny building blocks? These Nanostructures Are Hacking Nature - https://y...
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It takes forever to build a new thing. Like that road you’re always driving on? How long has that thing been under construction? Right? I empathize. Now, imagine doing that one ATOM at a time. We here at Seeker get all excited over metamaterials because they can do so much that natural materials can’t do like have incredible strength or tunable conductivity. They can have such amazing properties because we can design and build them atom by atom, making crystal superlattices. The key to building these structures are artificial atoms. Admittedly, the name is a bit misleading, because they’re not atoms we somehow built proton by proton. Rather, they’re extremely tiny crystals made of anywhere from 100 to 10,000 atoms. They’re still so small...
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It takes forever to build a new thing. Like that road you’re always driving on? How long has that thing been under construction? Right? I empathize. Now, imagine doing that one ATOM at a time. We here at Seeker get all excited over metamaterials because they can do so much that natural materials can’t do like have incredible strength or tunable conductivity. They can have such amazing properties because we can design and build them atom by atom, making crystal superlattices. The key to building these structures are artificial atoms. Admittedly, the name is a bit misleading, because they’re not atoms we somehow built proton by proton. Rather, they’re extremely tiny crystals made of anywhere from 100 to 10,000 atoms. They’re still so small...
