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

In the recent decades, with rapid development in computing power and algorithms, machine
learning (ML) has exhibited its enormous potential in new polymer discovery. Herein, the …

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

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 …

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

Strain-induced crystallization (SIC) prevalently strengthens, toughens, and enables an
elastocaloric effect in elastomers. However, the crystallinity induced by mechanical …

Elastocaloric cooling using shape memory alloys is a promising candidate for next-
generation environmentally friendly refrigeration. The temperature lift (T lift), that is, the …

Elastocaloric cooling represents a potentially higher efficiency cooling technique that is also
potentially more environmentally friendly than conventional technologies. Elastocaloric …

Elastocaloric cooling has emerged as an eco-friendly technology capable of eliminating
greenhouse-gas refrigerants. However, its development is limited by the large driving force …

Although the elastocaloric effect was found in natural rubber as early as 160 years ago,
commercial elastocaloric refrigeration based on polymer elastomers has stagnated owing to …