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 …

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

Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising
replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary …

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 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 technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

It has been ten years since the discovery of the giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric
materials showed that it is possible to employ this effect for substantial cooling applications …

Heat pumps based on magnetocaloric and electrocaloric working bodies—in which entropic
phase transitions are driven by changes of magnetic and electric field, respectively—use …

The fast growing family of organic–inorganic hybrid compounds has recently been attracting
increased attention owing to the remarkable functional properties (magnetic, multiferroic …