Robustly printable freeform thermal metamaterials

Thermal metamaterials can be used to manipulate heat flow but experimental fabrication is challenging. Here, the authors report robustly printable freeform thermal metamaterials to tackle this challenge by topology optimization and 3D printing.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Wei Sha, Mi Xiao, Jinhao Zhang, Xuecheng Ren, Zhan Zhu, Yan Zhang, Guoqiang Xu, Huagen Li, Xiliang Liu, Xia Chen, Liang Gao, Cheng-Wei Qiu, Run Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-12-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27543-7