Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals Tie Jun Cui, Wen Xuan Tang, Xin Mi Yang, Zhong Lei Mei, a
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apter discusses Brillo’s four questions and summarizes them. The last three chapters cover the interproperty relations of liquid alloys, the solid–liquid and liquid–liquid interfacial energies of specific systems, and the thermophysical properties of some liquid Ga-Mn-Ni alloys (which provide magnetic shape-memory alloys), and present an overall discussion and conclusion. The two appendices present all of the experimental data on liquid alloys determined by Brillo’s research group. Brillo did not provide a general rule for prediction of excess
Metamaterials: Beyond Crystals, Noncrystals, and Quasicrystals Tie Jun Cui, Wen Xuan Tang, Xin Mi Yang, Zhong Lei Mei, and Wei Xiang Jiang CRC Press, 2016 341 pages, $175.96 (e-book $153.97) ISBN 9781482223101
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etamaterials are materials consisting of small manmade structures, “meta-atoms,” arranged regularly (crystal-like) or randomly (such as in an amorphous material), similar to atoms in a conventional material. The focus of this book is the interaction of electromagnetic waves with these materials. The most famous metamaterials are those with a negative index of refraction and materials to be used for “invisibility cloaks.” The theoretical description of the properties of these materials, explained in the introductory chapters, is based on Maxwell's equations and other laws and is derived therein from Maxwell's equations. This means that
physicists and most materials scientists should have no difficulty following the mathematical descriptions. The frequency range discussed in this book is limited to microwaves. A special chapter is devoted to each type of metamaterial, highly ordered super crystals, random metamaterials, super noncrystals, and inhomogeneous metamaterials called “super quasicrystals.” Special groups of materials—gradient and twodimensional metamaterials—are also discussed. The properties of each of these are discussed in detail. However, in most cases, the authors give only the final equations describing the properties and do not show enough to determine
volumes or other thermophysical properties of the evaluated liquid pure metal and some of their binary and ternary alloys. This book will be valuable to newcomers to the field thanks to its explanations of the different properties of liquid metals, and also to senior researchers and engineers working with liquid metals or in parallel fields due to its large amount of experimental and assessed data. Reviewer: Roberto Ribeiro de Avillez of Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
how to deduce them. In most cases, this is sufficient for the reader interested in applications. The synthesis of metamaterials is not described at all; the book is limited to the properties. Even though the content of this book is based primarily on work conducted in the State Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves at the Southeast University in China, the authors took care to include references to the international literature in this area. Each chapter is followed by a long list of articles from the literature. Visualiz
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