Advanced Metamaterials - a new journal for a rapidly growing discipline

Abstract

It gives me great pleasure to announce the launch of a new Springer/Nature journal “Advanced Metamaterials.”For over a decade, we have seen the slow emergence of metamaterials, materials for the manipulation of electromagnetic radiation and acoustic waves as well as enhancing material mechanical properties. These unique materials are artificial materials, not found in nature. There unique properties arise from the materials’ unique organized structure and the way their constituent building block elements are arranged, rather than from the inherent characteristics of the materials themselves. These building block elements within the metamaterials are smaller than the wavelength of the radiation they interact with. Applications of metamaterials are starting to rapidly expand, particularly for materials and life science applications.