Photonics and thermodynamics concepts in radiative cooling

S Fan, W Li - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Radiative cooling is a ubiquitous passive process that uses photon heat flow to carry away
energy and entropy. Radiative cooling processes have been studied in the scientific …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Towards higher-dimensional structured light

C He, Y Shen, A Forbes - Light: Science & Applications, 2022 - nature.com
Structured light refers to the arbitrarily tailoring of optical fields in all their degrees of freedom
(DoFs), from spatial to temporal. Although orbital angular momentum (OAM) is perhaps the …

A lightweight, elastic, and thermally insulating stealth foam with high infrared‐radar compatibility

W Gu, SJH Ong, Y Shen, W Guo, Y Fang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of infrared‐radar compatible materials/devices is challenging because the
requirements of material properties between infrared and radar stealth are contradictory …

Carbon nanocoils/carbon foam as the dynamically frequency‐tunable microwave absorbers with an ultrawide tuning range and absorption bandwidth

L Wu, S Shi, G Wang, P Mou, X Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The absorption frequency of conventional microwave absorbing materials (MAMs) is hardly
tuned in operando, while such dynamic frequency regulation of MAMs is of great …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrahigh-efficient material informatics inverse design of thermal metamaterials for visible-infrared-compatible camouflage

W Xi, YJ Lee, S Yu, Z Chen, J Shiomi, SK Kim… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Multispectral camouflage technologies, especially in the most frequently-used visible and
infrared (VIS-IR) bands, are in increasing demand for the ever-growing multispectral …

Intelligent Off/On Switchable Microwave Absorption Performance of Reduced Graphene Oxide/VO2 Composite Aerogel

Z Cheng, R Wang, Y Cao, Z Cai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent microwave absorption (MA) materials possess the ability to dynamically change
their microwave absorption performance, according to real‐time requirements, and it is of …

Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

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

[HTML][HTML] Whole-infrared-band camouflage with dual-band radiative heat dissipation

B Qin, Y Zhu, Y Zhou, M Qiu, Q Li - Light: Science & Applications, 2023 - nature.com
Advanced multispectral detection technologies have emerged as a significant threat to
objects, necessitating the use of multiband camouflage. However, achieving effective …

[HTML][HTML] High-temperature multispectral stealth metastructure from the microwave-infrared compatible design

Z An, Y Huang, R Zhang - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Microwave and infrared stealth technology plays an important role in the development of
military equipment and national defense. However, with the development of high Mach …