Materials with giant mechanocaloric effects: cooling by strength

L Mañosa, A Planes - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The search for materials with large caloric effects has become a major challenge in material
science due to their potential in develo** near room‐temperature solid‐state cooling …

[HTML][HTML] Present and future caloric refrigeration and heat-pump technologies

A Kitanovski, U Plaznik, U Tomc, A Poredoš - International Journal of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In recent years, several emerging technologies in the domain of solid-state physics have
been investigated as serious alternatives for future refrigeration, heat pum**, air …

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 …

Long life elastocaloric regenerator operating under compression

L Ianniciello, K Bartholomé, A Fitger… - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling represents a potentially higher efficiency cooling technique that is also
potentially more environmentally friendly than conventional technologies. Elastocaloric …

Achieving great comprehensive elastocaloric cooling performances of superelastic NiTi by grain size engineering

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang, D Wang - Materials Today Nano, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric materials, as cutting-edge alternatives to hazardous refrigerants utilized in
vapor-compression systems, are promising for eco-friendly solid-state cooling, but their …

Giant and reversible room-temperature magnetocaloric effect in Ti-doped Ni-Co-Mn-Sn magnetic shape memory alloys

YH Qu, DY Cong, XM Sun, ZH Nie, WY Gui, RG Li… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The practical applications of magnetocaloric materials for magnetic refrigeration require not
only large magnitude but also reversibility, as well as room-temperature operating …

Enhanced cyclability of elastocaloric effect in boron-microalloyed Ni-Mn-In magnetic shape memory alloys

Z Yang, DY Cong, XM Sun, ZH Nie, YD Wang - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Cyclability of elastocaloric effect is of crucial importance for practical applications of
elastocaloric refrigeration which is a promising alternative to the conventional cooling …

Large elastocaloric effect in directionally solidified all-d-metal Heusler metamagnetic shape memory alloys

Y Shen, Z Wei, W Sun, Y Zhang, E Liu, J Liu - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid-state cooling based on the caloric effect of phase transformation materials has
attracted considerable interest with the increased demand for energy-efficient and …

[HTML][HTML] Giant elastocaloric effect and exceptional mechanical properties in an all-d-metal Ni–Mn–Ti alloy: Experimental and ab-initio studies

HL Yan, LD Wang, HX Liu, XM Huang, N Jia, ZB Li… - Materials & Design, 2019 - Elsevier
Exploring novel materials with superior elastocaloric effect (eCE) is a central issue for the
development of eCE refrigeration technique. In this work, we report a giant adiabatic …

Novel mechanocaloric materials for solid-state cooling applications

C Cazorla - Applied Physics Reviews, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Current refrigeration technologies based on compression cycles of greenhouse gases are
environmentally threatening and cannot be scaled down to on-chip dimensions. Solid-state …