Naturally-occurring thermal materials usually possess specific thermal conductivity (κ),
forming a digital set of κ values. Emerging thermal metamaterials have been deployed to …

Thermal metamaterials have been extensively studied due to their extraordinary properties
beyond natural materials and offered great flexibilities to tune heat flow for desired thermal …

Heat energy can transfer via convection, conduction, and radiation. Based on convection
and conduction in microfluidics, people have designed and fabricated many novel devices …

Controlling heat transfer with artificial functional materials has been a promising route
towards the efficient and smart utilization of thermal energy in modern society. At the …

Due to fluid viscosity, marine vehicles and structures immersed in fluids are inevitably
affected by various fluid resistances. To obtain an effective method to eliminate drag and …

Transformation optics based metamaterial thermal harvesting devices, which provides
power and efficiency related advantages by manipulating and concentrating thermal fluxes …

Intelligence has become one of the developing trends of thermal metamaterials in order to
meet different practical requirements. By considering the temperature-dependent and …

The research on thermal illusion contributes to both fundamental theories and practical
applications. In the existing literatures, the most common mechanism is to design a shell to …

Benefitting from transformation optics, the design of thermal harvesting devices by
manipulating heat flux has aroused considerable interest owing to its potential application in …

Thermal harvesting devices based on transformation optics, which can manipulate the heat
flux concentration significantly through rational arrangements of the conductivities, have …