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 …

Thermal camouflaging metamaterials

R Hu, W **, 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 …

Tunable liquid–solid hybrid thermal metamaterials with a topology transition

P **, J Liu, L Xu, J Wang, X Ouyang… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Thermal metamaterials provide rich control of heat transport which is becoming the
foundation of cutting-edge applications ranging from chip cooling to biomedical. However …

Illusion thermotics

R Hu, S Zhou, Y Li, DY Lei, X Luo… - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Fata Morgana” or “Mirage” phenomena have long been captivated as optical
illusions, which actually relies on gradient‐density air or vapor. Man‐made optical illusions …

Encrypted thermal printing with regionalization transformation

R Hu, S Huang, M Wang, X Luo, J Shiomi… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Artificially structured thermal metamaterials provide an unprecedented possibility of molding
heat flow that is drastically distinct from the conventional heat diffusion in naturally …

Thermal illusion with twinborn-like heat signatures

S Zhou, R Hu, X Luo - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2018 - Elsevier
Thermal illusion device, which can change an arbitrary object into another one when
observed from an infrared vision, recently has attracted considerable attention amongst a …

General topology optimization method with continuous and discrete orientation design using isoparametric projection

T Nomura, EM Dede, J Lee, S Yamasaki… - International Journal …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
A general topology optimization method, which is capable of simultaneous design of density
and orientation of anisotropic material, is proposed by introducing orientation design …

Active thermal cloak

DM Nguyen, H Xu, Y Zhang, B Zhang - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
Thermal cloaking, as an ultimate thermal “illusion” phenomenon, is the result of advanced
heat manipulation with thermal metamaterials—heat can be guided around a hidden object …

Topology optimization of thermal cloaks in euclidean spaces and manifolds using an extended level set method

X Xu, XD Gu, S Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal cloaks are devices designed to shield an object against thermal detection, which
have attracted growing interest in research. This paper proposes to design thermal cloaks …

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 …