Top-down control of bottom-up material synthesis @ nanoscale

In a recently published paper in Opto-Electronic Advances, Mangirdas Malinauskas and his colleagues at Vilnius University report on a new high resolution inorganic material synthesis pathway using 3D laser printing and calcination. 3D metamaterials(beyond what exist in nature) emerge from research in high-resolution 3D polymerisation/printing where proportions of inorganic parts of a composit can be widely tuned1.