The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Diffusion and wave propagation are both fundamental transport mechanisms, but they have
intrinsically different dynamics, governing equations, and applications. Over the past …

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 concept of metamaterials originates from the proposal of left-hand materials with
negative refractive index, followed by which, varieties of metamaterials with kinds of fantastic …

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

Thermal metamaterials are mixture‐based materials that are engineered to manipulate,
control, and process the flow of heat, enabling numerous advanced thermal metadevices …

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

Thermal camouflage has been successful in the conductive regime, where thermal
metamaterials embedded in a conductive system can manipulate heat conduction inside the …

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

Inspired by the developments in photonic metamaterials, the concept of thermal
metamaterials has promised new avenues for manipulating the flow of heat. In photonics …