Clarifying the four core effects of high-entropy materials

WL Hsu, CW Tsai, AC Yeh, JW Yeh - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
High-entropy materials emerged as a field of research in 2004, when the first research on
high-entropy alloys was published. The scope was soon expanded from high-entropy alloys …

Smart and multifunctional materials based on electroactive poly (vinylidene fluoride): recent advances and opportunities in sensors, actuators, energy, environmental …

CM Costa, VF Cardoso, P Martins, DM Correia… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
From scientific and technological points of view, poly (vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, is one of
the most exciting polymers due to its overall physicochemical characteristics. This polymer …

High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system

S Qian, D Catalini, J Muehlbauer, B Liu, H Mevada… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Develo** zero–global warming potential refrigerants has emerged as one area that helps
address global climate change concerns. Various high-efficiency caloric cooling techniques …

Fluoropolymer ferroelectrics: Multifunctional platform for polar-structured energy conversion

X Qian, X Chen, L Zhu, QM Zhang - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ferroelectric materials are currently some of the most widely applied material systems and
are constantly generating improved functions with higher efficiencies. Advancements in poly …

The rise of high-entropy battery materials

B Ouyang, Y Zeng - nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of high-entropy materials has inspired the exploration of novel materials in
diverse technologies. In electrochemical energy storage, high-entropy design has shown …

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 …

Triboelectric nanogenerators exhibiting ultrahigh charge density and energy density

X Liu, Z Zhao, Y Gao, Y Nan, Y Hu, Z Guo… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanical energy harvesting in triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) addresses the
limitations of conventional power supplies, with charge density as a critical parameter for …

High-entropy ferroelectric materials

H Qi, L Chen, S Deng, J Chen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
High-performance ferroelectric materials are used in many applications, ranging from
actuators to capacitors. Now, high entropy is emerging as an effective and flexible strategy …

High‐performance ferroelectric based materials via high‐entropy strategy: design, properties, and mechanism

Y Zhang, L Chen, H Liu, S Deng, H Qi, J Chen - InfoMat, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High‐performance ferroelectric materials are widely used in various electronic devices
owing to the function of mutual conversion among different energies, which mainly relates to …

High cooling performance in a double-loop electrocaloric heat pump

J Li, A Torelló, V Kovacova, U Prah, A Aravindhan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Cooling through solid-state electrocaloric materials is an attractive replacement for vapor
compression. Despite recent efforts, devices that are potentially commercially competitive …