Compared with fuel cells and electrochemical capacitors, dielectric capacitors are regarded
as promising devices to store electrical energy for pulsed power systems due to their fast …

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 lead-free sodium bismuth titanate (BNT) system has been extensively investigated in
the past decade due to its multi-functional electro-active properties. Here, we present a …

Molecular ferroelectrics have gradually aroused great interest in both fundamental scientific
research and technological applications because of their easy processing, light weight and …

Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

Electrocaloric cooling technologies, enabled by the discovery of the giant electrocaloric
effect in dielectrics more than a decade ago, represents a zero-global-warming-potential …

Refrigeration is of vital importance for modern society—for example, for food storage and air
conditioning—and 25 to 30 per cent of the world's electricity is consumed for refrigeration …

Highlights This article systematically reviews the thermal management wearables with a
specific emphasis on materials and strategies to regulate the human body temperature …

A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

The search for materials with large caloric effects has become a major challenge in material
science due to their potential in developing near room‐temperature solid‐state cooling …