[HTML][HTML] Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling

H Hou, S Qian, I Takeuchi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

Emerging solid‐to‐solid phase‐change materials for thermal‐energy harvesting, storage, and utilization

A Usman, F Xiong, W Aftab, M Qin, R Zou - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change materials (PCMs) offer tremendous potential to store thermal energy during
reversible phase transitions for state‐of‐the‐art applications. The practicality of these …

Caloric materials for cooling and heating

X Moya, ND Mathur - Science, 2020 - science.org
Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Harnessing molecular rotations in plastic crystals: a holistic view for crystal engineering of adaptive soft materials

S Das, A Mondal, CM Reddy - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Plastic crystals (PCs), formed by certain types of molecules or ions with reorientational
freedom, offer both exceptional mechanical plasticity and long range order, hence they are …

[HTML][HTML] A cascade electrocaloric cooling device for large temperature lift

Y Meng, Z Zhang, H Wu, R Wu, J Wu, H Wang, Q Pei - Nature Energy, 2020 - nature.com
Cooling technology that is both compact and flexible is increasingly vital for the thermal
management of wearable electronics and personal comfort. Electrocaloric (EC) cooling …

[HTML][HTML] Large electrocaloric effects in oxide multilayer capacitors over a wide temperature range

B Nair, T Usui, S Crossley, S Kurdi, GG Guzmán-Verri… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
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 …

Electrocaloric coolers: a review

A Torelló, E Defay - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of giant electrocaloric effects, researchers are intensively studying
electrocaloric cooling as an alternative to vapor compression systems to develop more …

[HTML][HTML] An overview on the use of additives and preparation procedure in phase change materials for thermal energy storage with a focus on long term applications

A Ribezzo, G Falciani, L Bergamasco, M Fasano… - Journal of Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this review we aim at providing an up-to-date and comprehensive overview on the use of
additives within selected Phase Change Materials (PCMs) from both an experimental and …

Reversible and irreversible colossal barocaloric effects in plastic crystals

A Aznar, P Lloveras, M Barrio, P Negrier… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The extremely large latent heat exchanged in phase transitions involving strong molecular
orientational disordering has recently led to the proposal of plastic crystals as a feasible …

Giant and Reversible Barocaloric Effect in Trinuclear Spin‐Crossover Complex Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6

M Romanini, YX Wang, K Gürpinar… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A giant barocaloric effect (BCE) in a molecular material Fe3 (bntrz) 6 (tcnset) 6 (FBT) is
reported, where bntrz= 4‐(benzyl)‐1, 2, 4‐triazole and tcnset= 1, 1, 3, 3‐tetracyano‐2 …