Diffusion metamaterials

Z Zhang, L Xu, T Qu, M Lei, ZK Lin, X Ouyang… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Diffusion and wave propagation are both fundamental transport mechanisms, but they have
intrinsically different dynamics, governing equations, and applications. Over the past …

Beyond the visible: bioinspired infrared adaptive materials

J Yang, X Zhang, X Zhang, L Wang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) adaptation phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and biological systems. Taking
inspiration from natural creatures, researchers have devoted extensive efforts for developing …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P Jin, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

Thermal camouflaging metamaterials

R Hu, W Xi, Y Liu, K Tang, J Song, X Luo, J Wu… - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Thermal camouflage technologies, which aim at blending the infrared (IR) signature of
targets into the background to counter the IR detection, have witnessed increasing …

Emerging materials and strategies for personal thermal management

R Hu, Y Liu, S Shin, S Huang, X Ren… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In this decade, the demands of energy saving and diverse personal thermoregulation
requirements along with the emergence of wearable electronics and smart textiles give rise …

Ultrathin titanium carbide (MXene) films for high‐temperature thermal camouflage

L Li, M Shi, X Liu, X Jin, Y Cao, Y Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Thermal camouflage has attracted increasing attention owing to the rapid development of
infrared (IR) surveillance technologies. Various materials and systems have been …

Controlling macroscopic heat transfer with thermal metamaterials: theory, experiment and application

S Yang, J Wang, G Dai, F Yang, J Huang - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
Classical thermodynamics often helps to passively describe macroscopic heat phenomena
of natural systems, which means people almost cannot change the heat phenomena, but …

Robustly printable freeform thermal metamaterials

W Sha, M Xiao, J Zhang, X Ren, Z Zhu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Thermal metamaterials have exhibited great potential on manipulating, controlling and
processing the flow of heat, and enabled many promising thermal metadevices, including …

Visibly transparent and infrared reflective coatings for personal thermal management and thermal camouflage

HK Woo, K Zhou, SK Kim, A Manjarrez… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Tailoring thermal radiation using low‐infrared‐emissivity materials has drawn significant
attention for diverse applications, such as passive radiative heating and thermal …