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

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 …

Ferroelectric materials, because of their robust spontaneous electrical polarization, are
widely used in various applications. Recent advances in modelling, synthesis and …

A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

Solid-state magnetic cooling near room temperature has recently gained a prominent
position among alternative cooling technologies that are deemed to have higher energy …

Octacyanidometallates have been successfully employed in the design of heterometallic
coordination systems offering a spectacular range of desired physical properties with great …

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Materials science is recognized as one of the main factors driving development and
economic growth. Since the silicon industrial revolution of the 1950s, research and …

Thermophysiological comfort in humans is sought universally but seldom achieved due to
biological and physiological variances. Most people in developed parts of the world rely on …

Antiferroelectric thin films are demonstrated as a new class of giant electrocaloric materials
that exhibit a negative electrocaloric response of about-5 K near room temperature. The …