2023年超材料热点回眸

Hotspots of metamaterials research in 2023

盘点了2023年超材料学科在应用拓展、新材料研发、制造技术突破、可持续发展以及国际合作方面取得的突破性进展。在光学超材料领域,光学耗损控制、制备方法以及新功能拓展加快了光学超材料的发展;在热功能超材料领域,具有非互易热辐射特性的热学超材料研究有了新进展;力学超材料领域,从普适性的功能性表征到新结构、新机制、新功能、新方法的探索都有新突破;作为超材料家族的新成员,基于新物理概念的量子及时变超材料也有所进展,除此之外,超材料于常规材料的融合在基于二维材料的超表面和可重构超材料表面逐渐成为研究的热点。未来,超材料应在产业化应用落地、打破技术研究壁垒、抓住人工智能技术提供的新机遇以及挖掘新物理系统构建方面潜力和与常规材料融合发展等方面发力。

Metamaterials are a new class of artificial materials that emerged at the turn of the century,providing a new method of material construction and revolutionary technology for many technical fields.In the past 2023,research on metamaterials made certain progress in multiple aspects.This article attempts to review some of the main research works on metamaterials from several aspects,including optical metamaterials,thermal metamaterials,mechanics(mechanical)metamaterials,quantum and time-varying metamaterials,and the merging of metamaterials with conventional materials.The future research and development trends in the field are also predicted and anticipated.