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 …

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 camouflage technologies, which aim at blending the infrared (IR) signature of
targets into the background to counter the IR detection, have witnessed increasing …

Classical thermodynamics often helps to passively describe macroscopic heat phenomena
of natural systems, which means people almost cannot change the heat phenomena, but …

Metamaterials and devices that provide cloaking functionalities have strong potential to
bring fundamental scientific and engineering developments including invisibility, sound and …

The focused ion beam (FIB) is a powerful tool for fabrication, modification, and
characterization of materials down to the nanoscale. Starting with the gallium FIB, which was …

Thermal metamaterials have amazing properties in heat transfer beyond naturally occurring
materials owing to their well-designed artificial structures. The idea of thermal metamaterial …

Thermal camouflage, which is used to conceal objects in the infrared vision for confrontation
with infrared detection in civilian or military applications, has garnered increasing attraction …

Research on creating special structures with a negative Poisson's ratio, known as auxetic
metamaterials, is widely conducted for potential applications in flexible electronics …

A thermal rectifier/diode is a nonreciprocal element or system that enables preferential heat
transport in one direction. In this work we demonstrate a single-material thermal diode …