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

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

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

The rapid development of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) highlights the
demands of haptic feedback technologies, especially with portable or even wearable …

Elastocaloric cooling represents a potentially higher efficiency cooling technique that is also
potentially more environmentally friendly than conventional technologies. Elastocaloric …

Elastocaloric cooling has emerged as an eco-friendly technology capable of eliminating
greenhouse-gas refrigerants. However, its development is limited by the large driving force …

The coefficient of performance of material (COP mat, the ratio of caloric effect to energy
dissipation), a key figure-of-merit for solid-state refrigerants, is significantly degenerated by …

Flexible cooling devices, which aim to fulfill the essential requirement of complex working
environments and enable local heat dissipation, have become the cutting‐edge area of …

Solid-state cooling based on the caloric effect of phase transformation materials has
attracted considerable interest with the increased demand for energy-efficient and …

Elastocaloric cooling has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional vapor-
compression refrigeration, and miniaturization is essential for commercialization of this …