1 Instituto Universitario de Materiales de Alicante (IUMA) and Unidad Asociada CSIC-UA, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain 2 Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Alicante, Ap. 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain 3 International Center for New-Structured Materials (ICNSM), Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China 4 Depa...

In the past few years, new developments in structured electromagnetic materials have given rise to negative refractive index materials which have both negative dielectric permittivity and negative magnetic permeability in some frequency ranges. The idea of a negative refractive index opens up new conceptual frontiers in photonics. One much-debated example is the concept of a perfect lens that e...

This review highlights the recent methods to prepare PNA-based materials through a combination of self-assembly and self-organization processes. The use of these methods allows easy and versatile preparation of structured hybrid materials showing specific recognition properties and unique physicochemical properties at the nano- and micro-scale levels displaying potential applications in several...

On the basis of transformation optics, we propose the design of a surface plasmon wave adapter which confines surface plasmon waves on non-uniform metal surfaces and enables adiabatic mode transformation of surface plasmon polaritons with very short tapers. This adapter can be simply achieved with homogeneous anisotropic naturally occurring materials or subwavelength grating-structured dielectr...

We introduce a new algorithm for generating tetrahedral meshes that conform to physical boundaries in volumetric domains consisting of multiple materials. The proposed method allows for an arbitrary number of materials, produces high-quality tetrahedral meshes with upper and lower bounds on dihedral angles, and guarantees geometric fidelity. Moreover, the method is combinatoric so its implement...

knowledge acquisition Constructivism also contributes to this theoretical framework for interactive animation use. Constructivist theorist Spiro divided knowledge into two different types: Well-structured and ill-structured (Spiro & Jehng, 1990). He then offered theories of learning that emphasized the need to treat ill-structured knowledge domains differently from well-structured domains. Well...