Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P **, 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 …

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 …

Machine learning aided design and optimization of thermal metamaterials

C Zhu, EA Bamidele, X Shen, G Zhu, B Li - Chemical Reviews, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

Coherent perfect absorption at an exceptional point

C Wang, WR Sweeney, AD Stone, L Yang - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Recently, exceptional points, a degeneracy of open wave systems, have been observed in
photonics, acoustics, and electronics. They have mainly been realized as a degeneracy of …

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 …

Non-Hermitian topology in static mechanical metamaterials

A Wang, Z Meng, CQ Chen - Science advances, 2023‏ - science.org
The combination of broken Hermiticity and band topology in physical systems unveils a
novel bound state dubbed as the non-Hermitian skin effect (NHSE). Active control that …

Optical manipulation with metamaterial structures

Y Shi, Q Song, I Toftul, T Zhu, Y Yu, W Zhu… - Applied Physics …, 2022‏ - pubs.aip.org
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Wireless power transfer based on novel physical concepts

M Song, P Jayathurathnage, E Zanganeh… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Wireless power transfer—the transmission of electromagnetic energy without physical
connectors such as wires or waveguides—typically exploits electromagnetic field control …

Twisted moiré conductive thermal metasurface

H Li, D Wang, G Xu, K Liu, T Zhang, J Li, G Tao… - nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Extensive investigations on the moiré magic angle in twisted bilayer graphene have
unlocked the emerging field—twistronics. Recently, its optics analogue, namely opto …

Symmetry and topology in non-Hermitian physics

K Kawabata, K Shiozaki, M Ueda, M Sato - Physical Review X, 2019‏ - APS
Non-Hermiticity enriches topological phases beyond the existing Hermitian framework.
Whereas their unusual features with no Hermitian counterparts were extensively explored, a …