The corrosion of steel in concrete is mainly due to the chemical reaction between the chloride ions and iron ions. Indeed, this is a serious threaten for reinforced concrete structure, especially for the reinforced concrete structure in the sea. So it is urgent and important to protect concrete against chloride ions corrosion. In this work, we report multilayer concrete can cloak chloride ions. We formulated five kinds of concrete A, B, C, D and E, which are made of different proportion of cement, sand and glue, and fabricated six-layer (ABACAD) cylinder diffusion cloak and background media E. The simulation results show that the six-layer mass diffusion cloak can protect concrete against chloride ions penetration, while the experiment results show that the concentration gradients are parallel and equal outside the outer circle in the diffusion flux lines, the iso-concentration lines are parallel outside the outer circle, and the concentration gradients in the inner circle are smaller than those outside the outer circle.

When space (time) translation symmetry is spontaneously broken, the space crystal (time crystal) forms; when permittivity and permeability periodically vary with space (time), the photonic crystal (photonic time crystal) forms. We proposed the concept of photonic time crystal and rewritten the Maxwell’s equations. Utilizing Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method, we simulated electromagnetic wave propagation in photonic time crystal and photonic space-time crystal, the simulation results show that more intensive scatter fields can obtained in photonic time crystal and photonic space-time crystal.

In this Letter, we experimentally observed heat diffusion transparency with the heat diffusion device we fabricated, which can measure time-dependent temperature. Utilizing the effective medium theory, we fabricated an isotropic spherical shell with an isotropic spherical core, as well as a multilayer isotropic spherical shell with an isotropic spherical core as neutral inclusions. We measured the temperatures and temperature gradients outside the neutral inclusions with the self-made heat diffusion device and analyzed the heat transparent conditions. The experimental results show that the temperature gradients are parallel and equal outside the neutral inclusion, and the iso-temperature lines are also parallel outside the neutral inclusion.

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