Routes to greener plastics
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How to hide a dimension from view Compacted dimensions are essential ingredients of advanced string theories; the extra dimensions used to describe the world are hidden from view, or compacted. Pendry et al. used concepts of transformation optics, in which metamaterials are designed to produce specific optical properties, to show theoretically that compacted dimensions could be possible in plasmonic structures. For example, simulations with a metallic grating and periodically doped graphene revealed that two-dimensional structures exhibit optical properties of a bulk material. To all intents and purposes, it looks as if one of Edited by Stella Hurtley I N SC IENCE J O U R NA L S RESEARCH
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