List of potential gemstone based metamaterials

For a general discussion main go up to the main article: "Gemstone based metamaterial"

List of new materials / base technologies

The set of here presented meta-materials seems less speculative and more incomplete than the list of applications on the products page. It is sorted by design/programming effort which is rather subjective and subject to debate.

low effort

• simple standard macro diamondoid structural meta materials
• molecular filters
• macroscopic super-bearings (one can only see a speed gradient)
  
• anisotropic material properties (e.g. scissoring mechanisms material)
• data storage material and the like

medium effort

• artificial muscles with higher power densities than today's combustion engines. They can replace today's (2014) electrical motors that often use the not too abundant/accessible rare earth elements.
• absolutely silent (macro motionless) pumps a "pumping material" with no movable parts which are visible to the naked eye.
• cells for the direct conversion from mechanical to chemical energy and vice versa (chemomechanical converters).
• super-fast shearing valves
• material structuring into microcomponents for recycling and recomposition
• structures borrowed from origami techniques
• tensegrity structures.
• emulated color -- local control makes that a display, light emitting systems might be more heterogenous (lasers?)
• transformer metamaterials: purely mechanical pulse width modulation and other materials for energy conversion
• transparent cloth with switchable stiffening e.g. for a helmet of an AP suit (interspersed multi-function metamaterial?)
• density shifting via translocation of mass carriers (possibly carrying lead atoms in diamiondoid form)

high effort

• "elastic diamond" (made possible through the implementation as a semi active metamaterial)
• maximizing emulated toughness ("beefy" that is much volume occupying dissipation elements are needed - how far can be gone with active high power cooling ?)
• materials with choosable / adjustable stress-strain diagram (emulated elastoplasticity)
• actively self cleaning surfaces (no "stupid" lotus effect meant here) (macroscopic shell cleaning)
• self repairing materials and self repairing macroscopic machine parts - no decay through weather or root growth.
• combinations of several metamaterial properties that don't get too well together
• .... and many more