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

Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Refrigeration is of vital importance for modern society—for example, for food storage and air
conditioning—and 25 to 30 per cent of the world's electricity is consumed for refrigeration …

Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

It has been ten years since the discovery of the giant electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric
materials showed that it is possible to employ this effect for substantial cooling applications …

Heat pumps based on magnetocaloric and electrocaloric working bodies—in which entropic
phase transitions are driven by changes of magnetic and electric field, respectively—use …

High-efficiency elastocaloric refrigeration requires high-performance elastocaloric materials
with both large surface areas to promote heat exchange rate and large elastocaloric effects …