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 need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

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 …

Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and
absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with …

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 …

A new energy paradigm, consisting of greater reliance on renewable energy sources and
increased concern for energy efficiency in the total energy lifecycle, has accelerated …

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

In the past 20 years, there has been a surge in research on the magnetocaloric response of
materials, due mainly to the possibility of applying this effect for magnetic refrigeration close …

Environmentally friendly waterborne coatings have received significant attention recently
due to their lower volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emission than solvent-based …