Enhanced pyroelectricity over extended thermal range in flexible polymer thin films

K **e, J Housseini, PM Resende… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polymer‐based pyroelectric thin films are crucial functional materials at the core of flexible
and lightweight electronic devices, such as wearable monitoring sensors, energy harvesters …

Caloric effects in liquid crystal-based soft materials

D Črešnar, N Derets, M Trček, G Skačej… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With the increased environmental awareness, the search for environmentally friendlier heat-
management techniques has been the topic of many scientific studies. The caloric materials …

Direct electrocaloric characterization of ceramic films

U Prah, M Sadl, A Torello, P Lheritier… - Small …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Reliable and accurate characterization of the electrocaloric effect is necessary to understand
the intrinsic properties of materials. To date, several methods are developed to directly …

[HTML][HTML] Giant negative electrocaloric effect measured by indirect method in X-ray irradiated P (VDF-TrFE) films

B Li, B Yang, H Zhang, J Zhang, Q Wang, W Liu - Journal of Materiomics, 2024 - Elsevier
Flexible solid-state cooling devices with high efficiency are attracted to ferroelectric polymers
with excellent negative electrocaloric (EC) effects. It is challenging to obtain a large negative …

A self-regenerative heat pump based on a dual-functional relaxor ferroelectric polymer

H Wu, Y Zhu, W Yan, S Zhang, W Budiman, K Liu, J Wu… - Science, 2024 - science.org
Electrocaloric (EC) cooling presents a promising approach to efficient and compact solid-
state heat pumps. However, reported EC coolers have complex architectures and limited …

Enhanced Electrocaloric Effect of PVDF-based Polymer Composite with Surface Modified AlN

H Jiang, R Peng, Y Zhu, DY Jeong… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Poly (vinylidenefluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorotrifluoroethylene)(P (VDF-TrFE-CTFE))
relaxor ferroelectric polymer exhibits a modest electrocaloric effect (ECE) at a low electric …

Enhanced electrocaloric effect in Al2O3/P (VDF-TrFE-CTFE) nanocomposite: direct measurement by infrared thermal imaging

H Jiang, Y Zhu, R Peng, B Chu - Journal of Materials Science: Materials in …, 2024 - Springer
Poly (vinylidene fluoride)-based polymers have a relatively large electrocaloric effect (ECE)
but low thermal conductivity. In some studies, the ECE obtained from indirect measurement …

Simulation study on the effect of operating and materials parameters on electrocaloric device for battery cooling

R Rabadiya, N Saurabh, S Patel - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The present simulation work discusses the effect of different electric pulses, operating
temperatures, electrodes and substrate materials on electrocaloric (EC) performance. The …

High sensitivity to the electric field of both the phase transition temperature and the electrocaloric effect in ferroelectric NH4HSeO4

VS Bondarev, EA Mikhaleva, MV Gorev… - Solid State …, 2025 - Elsevier
The effect of an electric field on thermal and dielectric properties as well as electrocaloric
response in the ferroelectric NH 4 HSeO 4 has been studied using a universal …

Basics of design and modeling of regenerative electrocaloric coolers

A Torelló, E Defay - The Electrocaloric Effect, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrocaloric devices have undergone great advances in recent years, and the achieved
performances are getting close to the figures that real cooling applications require …