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Nature as a source of inspiration for designing and fabricating nanostructured materials with unconventional properties is an unparalleled driving force of this work leading to low-loss metamaterials. Here, we report about a multipronged approach to create optical metamaterials based on plasmonic nanostructures, hierarchical organization and interplay between plasmon elements and excitonic molecules. This work is focused on strategies and approaches to produce gain to metamaterials across scales with the aim of realizing low-loss optical materials and unlocking their unconvetional electromagnetic properties. Finally, we describe how a biomimetic approach based on gain-functionalized bionanoparticle can be harnessed for diagnostics and theranostics.
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The research leading to these results has received support and funding from the Ohio Third Frontier Project Research Cluster on Surfaces in Advanced Materials (RC-SAM), the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2008) METACHEM Project under Grant Agreement No. 228762 and from the Italian Project “NanoLase” - PRIN 2012, protocol number 2012JHFYMC. This work was partially supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation CMMI-1333651 to N.F.S.
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This contribution is the written, peer-reviewed version of one of the papers presented either at the roundtable From Life to Life: Through New Materials and Plasmonics, held at Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome on June 23, 2014, or at the International Conference NanoPlasm 2014: New Frontiers in Plasmonics and NanoOptics, held in Cetraro (CS) on June 16–20, 2014.
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De Luca, A., Bartolino, R., Correa-Duarte, M.A. et al. Gain-assisted plasmonic metamaterials: mimicking nature to go across scales. Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei 26 (Suppl 2), 161–174 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12210-015-0397-2
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