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 …

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 …

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

The growing demand of thermal management in various fields such as miniaturized 5G
chips has motivated researchers to develop new and high-performance solid-state …

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

Many established, but also potential future applications of NiTi-based shape memory alloys
(SMA) in biomedical devices and solid-state refrigeration require long fatigue life with 107 …

Electrocaloric cooling technologies, enabled by the discovery of the giant electrocaloric
effect in dielectrics more than a decade ago, represents a zero-global-warming-potential …

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 …

Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising
replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary …