Molecular persistently luminescent materials have received recent attention due to their
promising applications in optical displays, biological imaging, chemical sensing, and …

Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

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

Phase‐change materials (PCMs) offer tremendous potential to store thermal energy during
reversible phase transitions for state‐of‐the‐art applications. The practicality of these …

Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

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 …

The extremely large latent heat exchanged in phase transitions involving strong molecular
orientational disordering has recently led to the proposal of plastic crystals as a feasible …

Electrocaloric effect driven by electric fields displays great potential in realizing highly
efficient solid-state refrigeration. Nevertheless, most known electrocaloric materials exhibit …

There is currently great interest in replacing the harmful volatile hydrofluorocarbon fluids
used in refrigeration and air-conditioning with solid materials that display magnetocaloric …

A giant barocaloric effect (BCE) in a molecular material Fe3 (bntrz) 6 (tcnset) 6 (FBT) is
reported, where bntrz= 4‐(benzyl)‐1, 2, 4‐triazole and tcnset= 1, 1, 3, 3‐tetracyano‐2 …