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 …

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 …

Stable tensile recovery strain induced by a Ni4Ti3 nanoprecipitate in a Ni50. 4Ti49. 6 shape memory alloy fabricated via selective laser melting

HZ Lu, HW Ma, WS Cai, X Luo, Z Wang, CH Song… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
We report a stable tensile recovery strain induced by a Ni 4 Ti 3 nanoprecipitate in a Ni 50.4
Ti 49.6 shape memory alloy (SMA) fabricated via selective laser melting (SLM), followed by …

Controlling martensitic transformation characteristics in defect-free NiTi shape memory alloys fabricated using laser powder bed fusion and a process optimization …

L Xue, KC Atli, S Picak, C Zhang, B Zhang, A Elwany… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) was utilized to fabricate fully dense, near-
equiatomic (Ni 50.1 Ti 49.9) and Ni-rich NiTi (Ni 50.8 Ti 49.2) shape memory alloy (SMA) …

Effect of volume fraction and unit cell size on manufacturability and compressive behaviors of Ni-Ti triply periodic minimal surface lattices

X Yang, Q Yang, Y Shi, L Yang, S Wu, C Yan… - Additive Manufacturing, 2022 - Elsevier
Ni-Ti shape memory alloys with triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattice structures have
aroused increasing interests due to their great application potential in bone tissue …

Elastocaloric cooling of shape memory alloys: A review

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

Toward tunable mechanical behavior and enhanced elastocaloric effect in NiTi alloy by gradient structure

J Chen, B Liu, L Xing, W Liu, L Lei, G Fang - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Tailoring properties of engineering materials to meet various application requirements is a
long-standing challenge in materials science. Here, we demonstrate an unprecedented …

Continuous and efficient elastocaloric air cooling by coil-bending

X Li, P Hua, Q Sun - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Large tunable elastocaloric effect in additively manufactured Ni–Ti shape memory alloys

Y Cao, X Zhou, D Cong, H Zheng, Y Cao, Z Nie… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
High-efficiency elastocaloric refrigeration requires high-performance elastocaloric materials
with both large surface areas to promote heat exchange rate and large elastocaloric effects …

Improved elastocaloric cooling performance in gradient-structured NiTi alloy processed by localized laser surface annealing

J Chen, L Xing, G Fang, L Lei, W Liu - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
The coefficient of performance of material (COP mat, the ratio of caloric effect to energy
dissipation), a key figure-of-merit for solid-state refrigerants, is significantly degenerated by …