We theoretically study the generic mechanisms that could establish critical behavior in
nematic liquid crystals (NLCs). The corresponding free energy density terms should exhibit …

Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are soft materials that associate order and deformation.
Upon deformation, mechanically induced changes order affect entropy and can produce a …

Electrocaloric effects (ECE) in solid state materials, such as ferroelectric ceramics and
ferroelectric polymers, have a great impact in develo** cooling systems. Herein, we …

We carry out systematic experimental and theoretical study of elastocaloric (eC) response in
nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), which possess the elastic properties of elastomers …

A coarse-grained molecular Monte Carlo simulation of the barocaloric effect in a model Gay-
Berne liquid crystal is presented, following the so-called indirect approach wherein the …

It is roughly half a century since the first room-temperature magnetocaloric heat pump was
demonstrated by Brown [1]. His seminal work introduced the concept of regeneration in …

The discovery of ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal (FNLC) was envisioned by Born already
in 1916, but it was only 100 years later that Nishikawa et. al. and Chen et. al reported …