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Advancements in materials design and manufacturing have allowed for the production of ordered and disordered metamaterials with diverse and novel properties. Hyperuniform two-phase heterogeneous materials, which anomalously suppress density…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-27 Charles Emmett Maher , Katherine A. Newhall

Materials with nanoscale phase separation are considered. These materials are formed by a mixture of several phases, so that inside one phase there exist nanosize inclusions of other phases, with random shapes and random spatial locations.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-31 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

Hyperuniform point patterns are characterized by vanishing infinite wavelength density fluctuations and encompass all crystal structures, certain quasi-periodic systems, and special disordered point patterns. This article generalizes the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Chase E. Zachary , Salvatore Torquato

We show that materials made of scatterers distributed on a stealth hyperuniform point pattern can be transparent at densities for which an uncorrelated disordered material would be opaque due to multiple scattering. The conditions for…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-16 Olivier Leseur , Romain Pierrat , Rémi Carminati

Disordered stealthy hyperuniform (SHU) two-phase media are a special subset of hyperuniform structures with novel physical properties due to their hybrid crystal-liquid nature. We have previously shown that the strong-contrast expansion of…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-14 Jaeuk Kim , Salvatore Torquato

Materials featuring anomalous suppression of density fluctuations over large length scales are emerging systems known as disordered hyperuniform. The underlying hidden order renders them appealing for several applications, such as light…

Amorphous (disordered) materials are solids that have shown great potential in various domains, including energy storage, thermal management, and advanced materials. Unlike crystalline materials that can be described by unit cells…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yan Lin , Jilin Hu , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Morten M. Smedskjaer

Hyperuniform patterns present enhanced physical properties that make them the new generation of cutting-edge technological devices. Synthesizing devices with tens of thousands of components arranged in a hyperuniform fashion has thus become…

Crystalline two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene possess unique physical properties absent in their bulk form, enabling many novel device applications. Yet, little is known about their amorphous counterparts, which can be…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-05-25 Duyu Chen , Yu Zheng , Lei Liu , Ge Zhang , Mohan Chen , Yang Jiao , Houlong Zhuang

Hyperuniform materials, characterized by anomalously suppressed long-wavelength density fluctuations, exhibit unique optical and photonic properties distinct from both crystalline and random media. While most prior studies have focused on…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 David Keeney , Wenlong Shi , Rohit Thomas , Yang Jiao

Nature provides examples of self-assemble lightweight disordered network structures with remarkable mechanical properties which are desirable for many applications purposes but challenging to reproduce artificially. Previous experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-03-27 Daniel Rayneau-Kirkhope , Silvia Bonfanti , Stefano Zapperi

Disordered many-particle hyperuniform systems are exotic amorphous states of matter that lie between crystals and liquids. Hyperuniform systems have attracted recent attention because they are endowed with novel transport and optical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Zheng Ma , Salvatore Torquato

Hyperuniformity characterizes a state of matter for which density fluctuations diminish towards zero at the largest length scales. However, the task of determining whether or not an experimental system is hyperuniform is experimentally…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Remi Dreyfus , Ye Xu , Tim Still , Lawrence A. Hough , A. G. Yodh , Salvatore Torquato

Amorphous materials of homogeneous structures usually suffer from nonuniform deformation under shear, which can develop into shear localization and eventually destructive shear band. One approach to tackle this issue is to introduce an…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-01 Guo-Jie J. Gao , Yun-Jiang Wang , Shigenobu Ogata

The geometric design of structures with optimized physical and chemical properties is one of the core topics in materials science. However, designing new functional materials is challenging due to the vast number of existing and the…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-17 Congcong Cui , Guangfeng Wei , Matthias Saba , Yuanyuan Cao , Lu Han

Metamaterials are engineered materials composed of specially designed unit cells that exhibit extraordinary properties beyond those of natural materials. Complex engineering tasks often require heterogeneous unit cells to accommodate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Hongrui Chen , Liwei Wang , Levent Burak Kara

We study two-dimensional wave propagation in materials whose properties vary periodically in one direction only. High order homogenization is carried out to derive a dispersive effective medium approximation. One-dimensional materials with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Manuel Quezada de Luna , David I. Ketcheson

Hyperuniform disordered networks belong to a peculiar class of structured materials predicted to possess partial and complete photonic bandgaps for relatively moderate refractive index contrasts. The practical realization of such photonic…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-25 Nicolas Muller , Jakub Haberko , Catherine Marichy , Frank Scheffold

The design of materials with tailored properties is crucial for technological progress. However, most deep generative models focus exclusively on perfectly ordered crystals, neglecting the important class of disordered materials. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Liming Wu , Rui Jiao , Qi Li , Mingze Li , Songyou Li , Shifeng Jin , Wenbing Huang

Hyperuniform metasurfaces promise an unusual form of wave control: the suppression of elastic scattering over extended angular ranges without periodic order. Here, we present a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study of 2D stealthy…