Intelligent Chameleonlike Metashells for Mass Diffusion
Zeren Zhang, Fubao Yang, Jiping Huang
Abstract
Metamaterials facilitate on-demand manipulations of mass diffusion and have been broadly employed in many fields covering optics, electronics, and particle dynamics. However, the applications of existing mass-diffusion metamaterials are severely limited due to the lack of intelligence when it comes to dynamic environments. To solve the problem, we bestow intelligence on metashells by utilizing transformation-invariant metamaterials, thus proposing intelligent chameleonlike metashells for mass diffusion. Such metashells not only automatically change their efficient parameters to adapt to environmental change but also cost no energy. Based on it, we further design an irregular-shaped chameleonlike concentrator and circular chameleonlike rotator. Meanwhile, we offer experimental suggestions combined with layered structure devices to validate our proposal as well. Our study may be an inspiration for intelligentializing mass-diffusion metamaterials in electronics and plasma physics.