Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling

H Hou, S Qian, I Takeuchi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

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 …

Giant barocaloric effect enhanced by the frustration of the antiferromagnetic phase in Mn3GaN

D Matsunami, A Fujita, K Takenaka, M Kano - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
First-order phase transitions are accompanied by a latent heat. Consequently, manipulating
them by means of an external field causes a caloric effect. Although transitions from …

NiMn-based metamagnetic shape memory alloys

RY Umetsu, X Xu, R Kainuma - Scripta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
Metamagnetic shape memory alloy (MMSMA), in which the martensitic transformation
temperature can be controlled by a magnetic field, is a new type of magnetic shape memory …

[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 …

All-d-Metal Heusler Alloys: A Review

T Bachagha, JJ Suñol - Metals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heusler alloy research has increased considerably in recent years. This is mostly due to
their strong desire to develop future smart device applications. However, many limiting …

Elastocaloric cooling of additive manufactured shape memory alloys with large latent heat

H Hou, E Simsek, D Stasak, N Al Hasan… - Journal of Physics D …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The stress-induced martensitic phase transformation of shape memory alloys (SMAs) is the
basis for elastocaloric cooling. Here we employ additive manufacturing to fabricate TiNi …

Giant low-field actuated caloric effects in a textured Ni43Mn47Sn10 alloy

G Zhang, D Li, C Liu, Z Li, B Yang, H Yan, X Zhao… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, based on composition adjusting and texture control, we demonstrate giant
elastocaloric and magnetocaloric effects in a directionally solidified Ni 43 Mn 47 Sn 10 …

Large and reversible elastocaloric effect in dual-phase Ni54Fe19Ga27 superelastic alloys

Y Xu, B Lu, W Sun, A Yan, J Liu - Applied Physics Letters, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
In this work, we report elastocaloric effect (eCE) in Ni-Fe-Ga polycrystalline alloys. By
application of a uniaxial compressive stress of 170 MPa at 298 K, a large and recoverable …

Correlation between microstructure and martensitic transformation, mechanical properties and elastocaloric effect in Ni–Mn-based alloys

XM Huang, LD Wang, HX Liu, HL Yan, N Jia, B Yang… - Intermetallics, 2019 - Elsevier
Microstructure is a crucial parameter to affect elastocaloric effect in the Ni–Mn-based alloys.
However, the specific influence of different microstructural parameters on elastocaloric effect …