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Cloaking of heat

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For time immemorial, clothes have been used for thermal insulation. Cloaking devices have now been demonstrated that insulate from heat while maintaining its flow, thus hiding objects from heat sensors.

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Figure 1: A thermal cloaking device.

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  1. Ulf Leonhardt is in the Centre for Optical and Electromagnetic Research, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovot, Israel.,

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Leonhardt, U. Cloaking of heat. Nature 498, 440–441 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/498440a

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