TY - JOUR
T1 - Extraordinary disordered hyperuniform multifunctional composites
AU - Torquato, Salvatore
N1 - Funding Information:
The author thanks Jaeuk Kim, Charles Maher, Murray Skolnick and Haina Wang for valuable comments about the paper. The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Program on Mechanics of Multifunctional Materials and Microsystems under award No. FA9550-18-1-0514.
Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-18-1-0514).
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© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022/9
Y1 - 2022/9
N2 - A variety of performance demands are being placed on material systems, including desirable mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, acoustic and flow properties. The purpose of the present article is to review the emerging field of disordered hyperuniform composites and their novel multifunctional characteristics. Disordered hyperuniform media are exotic amorphous states of matter that are characterized by an anomalous suppression of large-scale volume-fraction fluctuations compared to those in “garden-variety” disordered materials. Such unusual composites can have advantages over their periodic counterparts, such as unique or nearly optimal, direction-independent physical properties and robustness against defects. It will be shown that disordered hyperuniform composites and porous media can be endowed with a broad spectrum of extraordinary physical properties, including photonic, phononic, transport, chemical and mechanical characteristics that are only beginning to be discovered.
AB - A variety of performance demands are being placed on material systems, including desirable mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, acoustic and flow properties. The purpose of the present article is to review the emerging field of disordered hyperuniform composites and their novel multifunctional characteristics. Disordered hyperuniform media are exotic amorphous states of matter that are characterized by an anomalous suppression of large-scale volume-fraction fluctuations compared to those in “garden-variety” disordered materials. Such unusual composites can have advantages over their periodic counterparts, such as unique or nearly optimal, direction-independent physical properties and robustness against defects. It will be shown that disordered hyperuniform composites and porous media can be endowed with a broad spectrum of extraordinary physical properties, including photonic, phononic, transport, chemical and mechanical characteristics that are only beginning to be discovered.
KW - disordered composites
KW - hyperuniformity
KW - multifunctionality
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U2 - 10.1177/00219983221116432
DO - 10.1177/00219983221116432
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85135619450
SN - 0021-9983
VL - 56
SP - 3635
EP - 3649
JO - Journal of Composite Materials
JF - Journal of Composite Materials
IS - 23
ER -