Thermal metamaterials: From static to dynamic heat manipulation

C Fan, CL Wu, Y Wang, B Wang, J Wang - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Static and dynamic metamaterials have been extensively studied for their ability to
manipulate different physical fields and directed to broad applications. Because the …

Design via topology optimisation and experimental assessment of thermal metadevices for conductive heat flux shielding in transient regime

JCÁ Hostos, B Storti, N Lefevre, V Sobotka… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The design via density-based topology optimisation (TO) of thermal metadevices for
conductive heat flux manipulation in transient regime is introduced in this work. Such …

Thermal metamaterial for convergent transfer of conductive heat with high efficiency

X Shen, C Jiang, Y Li, J Huang - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
It is crucially important to focus conductive heat in an efficient way, which has received much
attention in energy science (say, solar cells), but is still far from being satisfactory due to the …

Thermally hiding an object inside a cloak with feeling

XY Shen, JP Huang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2014 - Elsevier
A thermal cloak can hide an object inside the cloak from the detection by measuring external
heat flow (outside the cloak); this behavior is called the cloaking effect. However, such a …

Unconventional thermal cloak hiding an object outside the cloak

Y Gao, JP Huang - Europhysics Letters, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
All the thermal cloaks reported in the literature can be used to thermally hide an object
inside the cloak. However, a common limitation of this kind of thermal cloaks is that the …

Advanced thermal metamaterial design for temperature control at the cloaked region

M Imran, L Zhang, AK Gain - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
The present study focuses on maintaining the temperature magnitude around heat-sensitive
components (cloaked region) in advanced electronic devices by introducing convective …

Nanoscale thermal cloaking in graphene via chemical functionalization

ZQ Ye, BY Cao - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Macro-thermal cloaking is typically produced by coordinate transformations, but this method
is unsuitable for nanostructures. We designed a graphene-based nanoscale thermal cloak …

[HTML][HTML] Cloaking of thermoelectric transport

T Stedman, LM Woods - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The ability to control electromagnetic fields, heat currents, electric currents, and other
physical phenomena by coordinate transformation methods has resulted in novel …

Achieving arbitrarily polygonal thermal harvesting devices with homogeneous parameters through linear mapping function

G Xu, H Zhang, Y Jin - Energy conversion and management, 2018 - Elsevier
Transformation optics based metamaterial thermal harvesting devices, which provides
power and efficiency related advantages by manipulating and concentrating thermal fluxes …

Realization of a thermal cloak–concentrator using a metamaterial transformer

DP Liu, PJ Chen, HH Huang - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
By combining rotating squares with auxetic properties, we developed a metamaterial
transformer capable of realizing metamaterials with tunable functionalities. We investigated …