Abstract: Bulk negative refractive index materials (NIM) or left-handed metamaterials (LHM) as an amorphous and isotropic solid material consisting of mutually electrically insulated synthetic rings or pucks smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Each ring or puck contains a nanometer sized metallized nucleic acid ring containing one or more non-metallized segments. The bulk material can be formed as a plurality of individual pucks randomly oriented, or as multiple rings stacked together in an axial direction whose axes may be randomly oriented.