2025 年 20 巻 2 号 p. 25-00037
This review paper summarizes the research for which the author has received the Nukiyama Memorial Award in 2022. The key essence of the research is “materials informatics (MI) for heat transfer” entailing the combination of nanoscale thermal science and data science. Various MI studies carried out at the Thermal Energy Engineering Lab with the collaborators on nanostructure design for heat conduction and thermal radiation are introduced. The MI method coupling heat transfer calculations and black-box optimization exhibits high efficiency to optimize nanostructures for target heat transfer properties. The method enabled the computational design and experimental realization of aperiodic superlattices that optimally impede coherent thermal transport and multilayer metamaterials with wavelength-selective thermal radiation.
