Extraordinary disordered hyperuniform multifunctional composites

S Torquato - Journal of Composite Materials, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
A variety of performance demands are being placed on material systems, including
desirable mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, acoustic and flow properties. The purpose …

Universal hyperuniform organization in looped leaf vein networks

Y Liu, D Chen, J Tian, W Xu, Y Jiao - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
The leaf vein network is a hierarchical vascular system that transports water and nutrients to
the leaf cells. The thick primary veins form a branched network, while the secondary veins …

Computational design of anisotropic stealthy hyperuniform composites with engineered directional scattering properties

W Shi, D Keeney, D Chen, Y Jiao, S Torquato - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Disordered hyperuniform materials are an emerging class of exotic amorphous states of
matter that endow them with singular physical properties, including large isotropic photonic …

Theoretical prediction of the effective dynamic dielectric constant of disordered hyperuniform anisotropic composites beyond the long-wavelength regime

J Kim, S Torquato - Optical Materials Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Torquato and Kim [Phys. Rev. X11, 296 021002 (2021) 10.1103/PhysRevX. 11.021002]
derived exact nonlocal strong-contrast expansions of the effective dynamic dielectric …

Nonlocal effective electromagnetic wave characteristics of composite media: Beyond the quasistatic regime

S Torquato, J Kim - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We derive exact nonlocal homogenized constitutive relations for the effective
electromagnetic wave properties of disordered two-phase composites and metamaterials …

Stone–wales defects preserve hyperuniformity in amorphous two-dimensional networks

D Chen, Y Zheng, L Liu, G Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Disordered hyperuniformity (DHU) is a recently discovered novel state of many-body
systems that possesses vanishing normalized infinite-wavelength density fluctuations similar …

Hidden hyperuniformity in soft polymeric materials

A Chremos, JF Douglas - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We investigate the nature of long-range density fluctuations in melts of model “soft”
polymers, specifically stars and bottlebrushes, over a wide temperature range by molecular …

Simulated diffusion spreadability for characterizing the structure and transport properties of two-phase materials

M Skolnick, S Torquato - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Time-dependent diffusion processes between phases of heterogeneous materials are
ubiquitous in a variety of contexts in the physical, chemical, and biological sciences …

[HTML][HTML] Disordered hyperuniform solid state materials

D Chen, H Zhuang, M Chen, PY Huang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Disordered hyperuniform (DHU) states are recently discovered exotic states of condensed
matter. DHU systems are similar to liquids or glasses in that they are statistically isotropic …

Nearly hyperuniform, nonhyperuniform, and antihyperuniform density fluctuations in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides with defects

D Chen, Y Zheng, CH Lee, S Kang, W Zhu, H Zhuang… - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Hyperuniform many-body systems in d-dimensional Euclidean space R d are characterized
by completely suppressed (normalized) infinite-wavelength density fluctuations, and appear …