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

Dielectric composites boost the family of energy storage and conversion materials as they
can take full advantage of both the matrix and filler. This review aims at summarizing the …

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 …

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 …

As the size of materials, particles, and devices shrinks to nanometer, atomic, or even
quantum scale, it is more challenging to characterize their thermal properties reliably …

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 …

Since the discovery of giant electrocaloric effects, researchers are intensively studying
electrocaloric cooling as an alternative to vapor compression systems to develop more …

Conventional refrigeration methods based on compression–expansion cycles of
greenhouse gases are environmentally threatening and cannot be miniaturized …

Antiferroelectric (AFE) materials, featuring an antiparallel alignment of electric dipoles in the
adjacent sublattices, are keeping a great promise toward solid-state refrigeration …

Perovskite oxides show an amazing diversity of electronic and magnetic properties along
with a myriad of structural variants and phase transitions. Large thermal changes may be …