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 …

Elastocaloric cooling capacity of shape memory alloys–Role of deformation temperatures, mechanical cycling, stress hysteresis and inhomogeneity of transformation

Y Wu, E Ertekin, H Sehitoglu - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric (EC) effect refers to the rapid cooling in shape memory alloys (SMAs) during
reverse transformation from martensite to austenite under adiabatic conditions. We present a …

Achieving great comprehensive elastocaloric cooling performances of superelastic NiTi by grain size engineering

J Chen, L Lei, G Fang, D Wang - Materials Today Nano, 2023 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric materials, as cutting-edge alternatives to hazardous refrigerants utilized in
vapor-compression systems, are promising for eco-friendly solid-state cooling, but their …

Elastocaloric effect vs fatigue life: Exploring the durability limits of Ni-Ti plates under pre-strain conditions for elastocaloric cooling

J Tušek, A Žerovnik, M Čebron, M Brojan, B Žužek… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Structural fatigue is the major obstacle that prevents practical applications of the
elastocaloric effect (eCE) in cooling or heat-pum** devices. Here, the eCE and fatigue …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Recent developments on the cyclic stability in elastocaloric materials

M Imran, X Zhang - Materials & Design, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid-state cooling based on elastocaloric effect (eCE), ie, a temperature change coupled to
an applied uniaxial stress in elastocaloric materials (eCMs), is an emerging refrigeration …

High fatigue life and cooling efficiency of NiTi shape memory alloy under cyclic compression

K Zhang, G Kang, Q Sun - Scripta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
We investigate the cyclic compressive fatigue behavior of pseudoelastic polycrystalline NiTi
shape memory alloy (SMA) under maximum applied stresses of 800, 950 and 1200 MPa. A …

Large room-temperature elastocaloric effect in a bulk polycrystalline Ni-Ti-Cu-Co alloy with low isothermal stress hysteresis

Z Yang, D Cong, Y Yuan, R Li, H Zheng, X Sun… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of high-performance advanced elastocaloric materials is essential for
the execution of elastocaloric refrigeration that can be an environment-friendly and high …

Stable and large superelasticity and elastocaloric effect in nanocrystalline Ti-44Ni-5Cu-1Al (at%) alloy

H Chen, F **ao, X Liang, Z Li, X **, T Fukuda - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Superelastic behavior and elastocaloric effect were investigated in a Ti-44Ni-5Cu-1Al (at%)
alloy subjected to various thermomechanical treatments. The specimen heat-treated at 673 …