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 is a new alternative solid-state cooling technology undergoing early
stage research and development. This study presents a comprehensive review of key issues …

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 …

Vapor compression (VC) is by far the most dominant technology for meeting all cooling and
refrigeration needs around the world. It is a mature technology with the efficiency of modern …

Refrigeration is one of the main sinks of the German and European electricity consumption
and accordingly contributes to worldwide CO2 emissions. High reduction potentials are …

The time-resolved strain and temperature profiles of magnetron-sputtered pseudoelastic
TiNi films of 20 μm thickness are investigated during tensile stress cycling for different strain …

The elastocaloric effect that occurs during the stress-induced martensitic transformation in
shape memory alloys is a promising mechanism in view of solid state cooling applications. It …

We report on the elastocaloric effect in a Cu-Zn-Al shape memory alloy. We show that both
the isothermal entropy and adiabatic temperature changes are large and reproducible upon …

With advances in solid-state cooling materials in the past decade, non-vapor compression
technologies, or not-in-kind (NIK) cooling technologies have garnered great attention …

Solid‐state cooling is an environmentally friendly, no global warming potential alternative to
vapor compression‐based systems. Elastocaloric cooling based on NiTi shape memory …