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 …

Convective thermal metamaterials are artificial structures where convection dominates in the
thermal process. Due to the field coupling between velocity and temperature, convection …

It is widely adopted in thermal metamaterials that mixing different materials could
conveniently result in effective thermal conductivities (ETCs) beyond naturally-occurring …

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

Metamaterials are featured by artificial composite structures with exotic properties, which
process promising application potentials in various areas. However, the manufacturing of …

Transformation theory has enabled the booming development of metamaterials which have
offered powerful capability to control different physical fields, and the remaining challenges …

Artificially designed composite materials consist of microstructures, that exhibit various
thermal properties depending on their shapes, such as anisotropic thermal conductivity. One …

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has advanced material research that were previously intractable,
for example, the machine learning (ML) has been able to predict some unprecedented …

This paper compares the mechanical properties of a class of lattice metamaterials with
aesthetically-pleasing patterns that are governed by the mathematics of aperiodic order …