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 …

Energy applications of magnetocaloric materials

A Kitanovski - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Giant temperature span in electrocaloric regenerator

A Torelló, P Lheritier, T Usui, Y Nouchokgwe, M Gérard… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Cooling devices based on caloric materials have emerged as promising candidates to
become the next generation of coolers. Several electrocaloric (EC) heat exchangers have …

Achievement of giant cryogenic refrigerant capacity in quinary rare-earths based high-entropy amorphous alloy

Y Zhang, J Zhu, S Li, J Wang, Z Ren - Journal of Materials Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Magnetic refrigeration (MR) by utilizing the magnetocaloric (MC) effect is recognized as one
of the most potential promising solid state environmentally friendly and high efficiency …

Magnetic properties and excellent cryogenic magnetocaloric performances in B-site ordered RE2ZnMnO6 (RE= Gd, Dy and Ho) perovskites

L Li, P Xu, S Ye, Y Li, G Liu, D Huo, M Yan - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
The solid-state magnetic cooling (MC) relying on magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of magnetic
materials is recognized as a promising energy efficiency and environmentally friendly …

[HTML][HTML] Material-based figure of merit for caloric materials

LD Griffith, Y Mudryk, J Slaughter… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The efficient use of reversible thermal effects in magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, and
elastocaloric materials is a promising avenue that can lead to a substantially increased …

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 …

A regenerative elastocaloric heat pump

J Tušek, K Engelbrecht, D Eriksen, S Dall'Olio, J Tušek… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A large fraction of global energy use is for refrigeration and air-conditioning, which could be
decarbonized if efficient renewable energy technologies could be found. Vapour …

Mastering hysteresis in magnetocaloric materials

O Gutfleisch, T Gottschall, M Fries… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hysteresis is more than just an interesting oddity that occurs in materials with a first-order
transition. It is a real obstacle on the path from existing laboratory-scale prototypes of …

A review of elastocaloric cooling: Materials, cycles and system integrations

S Qian, Y Geng, Y Wang, J Ling, Y Hwang… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling is a new alternative solid-state cooling technology undergoing early
stage research and development. This study presents a comprehensive review of key issues …