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ReviewNature communications2025

A guidance to intelligent metamaterials and metamaterials intelligence.

Chao Qian, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen

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Review in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 37 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Q-LEAP: Millisecond Hyperdimensional Optimization for Full-Spectrum Optical Metamaterials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  2. Recent Progress on Dynamically Tunable Multispectral Stealth Materials.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Chao QianZJU-UIUC Institute, Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. chaoq@intl.zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2207-2243
Ido KaminerDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2691-1892
Hongsheng ChenZJU-UIUC Institute, Interdisciplinary Center for Quantum Information, State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. hansomchen@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-9781

Funding

National Science Foundation of China | National Natural Science Foundation of China-Yunnan Joint Fund (NSFC-Yunnan Joint Fund) 2022YFA1404704
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bidirectional interactions between metamaterials and artificial intelligence have recently attracted immense interest to motivate scientists to revisit respective communities, giving rise to the proliferation of intelligent metamaterials and metamaterials intelligence. Owning to the strong nonlinear fitting and generalization ability, artificial intelligence is poised to serve as a materials-savvy surrogate electromagnetic simulator and a high-speed computing nucleus that drives numerous self-driving metamaterial applications, such as invisibility cloak, imaging, detection, and wireless communication. In turn, metamaterials create a versatile electromagnetic manipulator for wave-based analogue computing to be complementary with conventional electronic computing. In this Review, we stand from a unified perspective to review the recent advancements in these two nascent fields. For intelligent metamaterials, we discuss how artificial intelligence, exemplified by deep learning, streamline the photonic design, foster independent working manner, and unearth latent physics. For metamaterials intelligence, we particularly unfold three canonical categories, i.e., wave-based neural network, mathematical operation, and logic operation, all of which directly execute computation, detection, and inference task in physical space. Finally, future challenges and perspectives are pinpointed, including data curation, knowledge migration, and imminent practice-oriented issues, with a great vision of ushering in the free management of entire electromagnetic space.

Identifiers

PMID39880838
PMCPMC11779837

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