  A variety of performance demands are being placed on material systems,
including desirable mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, acoustic and flow
properties. The purpose of the present article is to review the emerging field
of disordered hyperuniform composites and their novel multifunctional
characteristics. Disordered hyperuniform media are exotic amorphous states of
matter that are characterized by an anomalous suppression of large-scale
volume-fraction fluctuations compared to those in "garden-variety" disordered
materials. Such unusual composites can have advantages over their periodic
counterparts, such as unique or nearly optimal, direction-independent physical
properties and robustness against defects. It will be shown that disordered
hyperuniform composites and porous media can be endowed with a broad spectrum
of extraordinary physical properties, including photonic, phononic, transport,
chemical and mechanical characteristics that are only beginning to be discov
