Materials science and fluids
Metamaterials, lattices, electrodes, exchangers, and porous media candidates.
Overview
Engineers often tune performance by changing geometry: pores, channels, lattices, surfaces, electrodes, exchangers, and support structures. Aperiodic arrays give researchers a new way to produce controlled non-periodic candidates at many scales.[2][5][8]
- Metamaterials, auxetic lattices, acoustic cloaking, photonic crystals, and programmable matter
- Battery electrodes, fuel cells, solar concentrators, thermal exchangers, and porous media
- Drag reduction, turbulence control, microfluidics, blood-flow modeling, and surface textures
See also
Materials and fabrication, Waves, acoustics, and photonics
Categories: Research frontiers