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 …

The magnetic functional materials play a particularly important role in our modern society
and daily life. The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is at the basis of a solid state magnetic …

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

Accompanied by enhancements in the ability to fabricate materials for humans, alloy-based
materials have advanced from binary alloy systems to complicated compositions along with …

Magnetic refrigeration (MR) is a key technique for hydrogen liquefaction. Although the MR
has ideally higher performance than the conventional gas compression technique around …

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 …

Nowadays, the magnetic materials with special functional characteristics are played very
important roles in the development of our present modern society. The magnetic …

As star material, perovskites have been widely used in the fields of optics, photovoltaics,
electronics, magnetics, catalysis, sensing, etc. However, some inherent shortcomings, such …

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 …

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