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

Phase‐change materials (PCMs) offer tremendous potential to store thermal energy during
reversible phase transitions for state‐of‐the‐art applications. The practicality of these …

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

Plastic crystals (PCs), formed by certain types of molecules or ions with reorientational
freedom, offer both exceptional mechanical plasticity and long range order, hence they are …

Cooling technology that is both compact and flexible is increasingly vital for the thermal
management of wearable electronics and personal comfort. Electrocaloric (EC) cooling …

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 …

Since the discovery of giant electrocaloric effects, researchers are intensively studying
electrocaloric cooling as an alternative to vapor compression systems to develop more …

In this review we aim at providing an up-to-date and comprehensive overview on the use of
additives within selected Phase Change Materials (PCMs) from both an experimental and …

The extremely large latent heat exchanged in phase transitions involving strong molecular
orientational disordering has recently led to the proposal of plastic crystals as a feasible …

Crystals are a state of matter characterized by periodic order. Yet, crystalline materials can
harbour disorder in many guises, such as non-repeating variations in composition, atom …