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

Ferroelectric materials are currently some of the most widely applied material systems and
are constantly generating improved functions with higher efficiencies. Advancements in poly …

More than a decade of research on the electrocaloric (EC) effect has resulted in EC
materials and EC multilayer chips that satisfy a minimum EC temperature change of 5 K …

Developing zero–global warming potential refrigerants has emerged as one area that helps
address global climate change concerns. Various high-efficiency caloric cooling techniques …

The human body must stay within a certain temperature range for comfort and safety.
However, challenges for thermoregulatory clothing exist for harsh application scenarios …

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

In recent years, elastocaloric cooling has shown great potential as an alternative to vapor-
compression refrigeration. However, there is still no existing elastocaloric device that offers …

Cooling through solid-state electrocaloric materials is an attractive replacement for vapor
compression. Despite recent efforts, devices that are potentially commercially competitive …

Elastocaloric cooling is a promising greenhouse-gas-free alternative to the conventional
vapor-compression refrigeration which relies on high global-warming-potential refrigerants …

The electrocaloric effect demands the maximized degree of freedom (DOF) of polar domains
and the lowest energy barrier to facilitate the transition of polarization. However, optimization …