Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

The area of artificial muscle is a highly interdisciplinary field of research that has evolved
rapidly in the last 30 years. Recent advances in nanomaterial fabrication and …

Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and
absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with …

Memory consolidation is the process by which a newly formed and unstable memory
transforms into a stable long-term memory. It is unknown whether the process of memory …

The trade-off of strength and ductility of metals has long plagued materials scientists. To
resolve this issue, great efforts have been devoted over the past decades to developing a …

Memory formation in matter is a theme of broad intellectual relevance; it sits at the
interdisciplinary crossroads of physics, biology, chemistry, and computer science. Memory …

The high cost of powerful, large-stroke, high-stress artificial muscles has combined with
performance limitations such as low cycle life, hysteresis, and low efficiency to restrict …

Exciting metallurgical breakthroughs of the last decades alongside the development and
wide-ranging availability of new and more capable experimental and theoretical tools for …

The giant magnetocaloric effect, in which large thermal changes are induced in a material
on the application of a magnetic field, can be used for refrigeration applications, such as the …

Introduction Since the completion of this volume in 1986, there has been an enormous
amount of fundamental advances in the theory of three-dimensional elasticity (Chapters 6 …