# Building Blocks to Create Metamaterials

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Building Blocks to Create Metamaterials

# Building Blocks to Create Metamaterials

January 17, 2018

[Chiara Daraio](http://eas.caltech.edu/people/daraio), Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Physics, and colleagues have created a method to systematically design metamaterials using principles of quantum mechanics. "Before our work, there was no single, systematic way to design metamaterials that control mechanical waves for different applications," Professor Daraio says. "Instead, people often optimized a design to fulfill a specific purpose, or tried out new designs based on something they saw in nature, and then studied what properties would arise from repeated patterns." [[Caltech story](http://www.caltech.edu/news/building-blocks-create-metamaterials-81058)]

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Trity Pourbahrami

Professor Chiara Daraio

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