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Metamaterials

They are artificially engineered composite materials with properties beyond those attainable in nature. Metamaterials properties are mainly defined by the architecture rather than by composition. Then, their structure dictates the properties with unprecedented opportunities in different fields spanning from optical, acoustic, thermal and mechanical engineering.

Petals School

Focuses on metamaterials for photonics exploiting the peculiar properties of advanced functional and self-assembling macromolecular systems. Due to the intrinsic multicultural and strongly interdisciplinary knowledge required to tackle this ambitious field, a common background including polymer science, optics and advanced nanofabrication tools have to be provided in order to fill the gap between traditional university master programs.

Is organized in the framework of National Relevant Interest Research Projects (PRIN 2020, 2020TS9LXS) funded by the Italian Ministry of University with the collaboration of the Italian Association of Science and Technology of Macromolecules (AIM, www.aim.it).

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