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 …

Caloric materials for cooling and heating

X Moya, ND Mathur - Science, 2020 - science.org
Magnetically driven thermal changes in magnetocaloric materials have, for several decades,
been exploited to pump heat near room temperature. By contrast, their electrocaloric and …

Temperature-adaptive radiative coating for all-season household thermal regulation

K Tang, K Dong, J Li, MP Gordon, FG Reichertz, H Kim… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The sky is a natural heat sink that has been extensively used for passive radiative cooling of
households. A lot of focus has been on maximizing the radiative cooling power of roof …

High-performance multimode elastocaloric cooling system

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

Giant temperature span and cooling power in elastocaloric regenerator

G Zhou, Y Zhu, S Yao, Q Sun - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
Elastocaloric cooling is a promising greenhouse-gas-free alternative to the conventional
vapor-compression refrigeration which relies on high global-warming-potential refrigerants …

A regenerative elastocaloric heat pump

J Tušek, K Engelbrecht, D Eriksen, S Dall'Olio, J Tušek… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A large fraction of global energy use is for refrigeration and air-conditioning, which could be
decarbonized if efficient renewable energy technologies could be found. Vapour …

Enhancing cooling performance of NiTi elastocaloric tube refrigerant via internal grooving

J Zhang, Y Zhu, S Cheng, S Yao, Q Sun - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing novel heat transfer surface structure on NiTi shape memory alloy tubes has big
potential to enhance the elastocaloric cooling performance. In this work, an internally …

Advances on air conditioning and heat pump system in electric vehicles–A review

Z Qi - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
There is a rising interest in electric vehicle׳ s climate control system including cooling and
heating. Electric vehicles (EVs, including hybrid electric vehicles and full electric vehicles) …

Not-in-kind cooling technologies: A quantitative comparison of refrigerants and system performance

S Qian, D Nasuta, A Rhoads, Y Wang, Y Geng… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
With advances in solid-state cooling materials in the past decade, non-vapor compression
technologies, or not-in-kind (NIK) cooling technologies have garnered great attention …

[HTML][HTML] Performance assessment of a rotary active magnetic regenerator prototype using gadolinium

M Masche, J Liang, K Engelbrecht, CRH Bahl - Applied Thermal …, 2022 - Elsevier
We present the experimental results for a rotary magnetocaloric prototype that uses the
concept of active magnetic regeneration, presenting an alternative to conventional vapor …