Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling

H Hou, S Qian, I Takeuchi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

Solid-state cooling: thermoelectrics

Y Qin, B Qin, D Wang, C Chang… - Energy & Environmental …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The growing demand of thermal management in various fields such as miniaturized 5G
chips has motivated researchers to develop new and high-performance solid-state …

High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system

S Qian, D Catalini, J Muehlbauer, B Liu, H Mevada… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Developing zero–global warming potential refrigerants has emerged as one area that helps
address global climate change concerns. Various high-efficiency caloric cooling techniques …

Caloric materials for cooling and heating

X Moya, ND Mathur - Science, 2020 - science.org
Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing

H Hou, E Simsek, T Ma, NS Johnson, S Qian, C Cissé… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and
absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with …

High-performance cooling and heat pumping based on fatigue-resistant elastocaloric effect in compression

Ž Ahčin, S Dall'Olio, A Žerovnik, UŽ Baškovič… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
In recent years, elastocaloric cooling has shown great potential as an alternative to vapor-
compression refrigeration. However, there is still no existing elastocaloric device that offers …

A review of the state of the art of solid-state caloric cooling processes at room-temperature before 2019

A Greco, C Aprea, A Maiorino, C Masselli - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
The solid-state processes for cooling and heat pump technologies are based on the well-
known caloric effects (magneto-, electro-, elasto-and baro-caloric). With an interest arisen in …

Materials with giant mechanocaloric effects: cooling by strength

L Mañosa, A Planes - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Elastocaloric cooling of shape memory alloys: A review

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

A regenerative elastocaloric heat pump

J Tušek, K Engelbrecht, D Eriksen, S Dall'Olio, J Tušek… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A large fraction of global energy use is for refrigeration and air-conditioning, which could be
decarbonized if efficient renewable energy technologies could be found. Vapour …