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 …

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

Develo** zero–global warming potential refrigerants has emerged as one area that helps
address global climate change concerns. Various high-efficiency caloric cooling techniques …

The phase‐down scenario of conventional refrigerants used in gas–vapor compressors and
the demand for environmentally friendly and efficient cooling make the search for alternative …

Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and
absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with …

Cooling devices based on caloric materials have emerged as promising candidates to
become the next generation of coolers. Several electrocaloric (EC) heat exchangers have …

A magnetically, electrically or mechanically responsive material can undergo significant
thermal changes near a ferroic phase transition when its order parameter is modified by the …

Lead-free piezoceramics aiming at replacing the market-dominant lead-based ones have
been extensively searched for more than a decade worldwide. Some noteworthy outcomes …

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 …

In the present work we explain the concentration dependence of the martensite start
temperature (MS) in Ni–Ti-based shape memory alloys (SMAs). We briefly review the …