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 …

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

The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

The phase‐down scenario of conventional refrigerants used in gas–vapor compressors and
the demand for environmentally friendly and efficient cooling make the search for alternative …

The ideal magnetocaloric material would lay at the borderline of a first-order and a second-
order phase transition. Hence, it is crucial to unambiguously determine the order of phase …

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

Hysteresis is more than just an interesting oddity that occurs in materials with a first-order
transition. It is a real obstacle on the path from existing laboratory-scale prototypes of …

In recent years, several emerging technologies in the domain of solid-state physics have
been investigated as serious alternatives for future refrigeration, heat pumping, air …

The giant magnetocaloric effect, in which large thermal changes are induced in a material
on the application of a magnetic field, can be used for refrigeration applications, such as the …

This review of the current state of magnetocalorics is focused on materials exhibiting a giant
magnetocaloric response near room temperature. To be economically viable for industrial …