Magnetocaloric effect: From materials research to refrigeration devices

V Franco, JS Blázquez, JJ Ipus, JY Law… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

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 …

Elastocaloric cooling of shape memory alloys: A review

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang - Materials Today Communications, 2021 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling technology based on shape memory alloys (SMAs) exploits the caloric
effect generated by stress-induced phase transformation of elastocaloric materials to realize …

Demonstration of high efficiency elastocaloric cooling with large ΔT using NiTi wires

J Cui, Y Wu, J Muehlbauer, Y Hwang… - Applied Physics …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Vapor compression (VC) is by far the most dominant technology for meeting all cooling and
refrigeration needs around the world. It is a mature technology with the efficiency of modern …

Advanced materials for solid-state refrigeration

L Mañosa, A Planes, M Acet - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent progress on caloric effects are reviewed. The application of external stimuli such as
magnetic field, hydrostatic pressure, uniaxial stress and electric field give rise respectively to …

Large elastocaloric effect in directionally solidified all-d-metal Heusler metamagnetic shape memory alloys

Y Shen, Z Wei, W Sun, Y Zhang, E Liu, J Liu - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid-state cooling based on the caloric effect of phase transformation materials has
attracted considerable interest with the increased demand for energy-efficient and …

[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 …

Simultaneously achieved large reversible elastocaloric and magnetocaloric effects and their coupling in a magnetic shape memory alloy

YH Qu, DY Cong, SH Li, WY Gui, ZH Nie, MH Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Large reversible caloric effects covering a broad temperature region are essential for high-
efficiency and environment-friendly solid-state caloric refrigeration that can potentially …

Elastocaloric effect of all-d-metal Heusler NiMnTi (Co) magnetic shape memory alloys by digital image correlation and infrared thermography

ZY Wei, W Sun, Q Shen, Y Shen, YF Zhang… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the stress-induced martensitic transformation behaviors and the associated
elastocaloric effect (eCE) for non-textured polycrystalline all-d-metal Heusler alloys of Ni 50 …

Multicaloric materials and effects

E Stern-Taulats, T Castán, L Mañosa, A Planes… - MRS bulletin, 2018 - cambridge.org
Multicaloric materials show thermal changes that can be driven simultaneously or
sequentially by more than one type of external field. The use of more than one driving field …