The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

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 …

The ideal magnetocaloric material would lay at the borderline of a first-order and a second-
order phase transition. Hence, it is crucial to unambiguously determine the order of phase …

The efficient use of reversible thermal effects in magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, and
elastocaloric materials is a promising avenue that can lead to a substantially increased …

Over the last two decades, the research activities on magnetocalorics have been
exponentially increased, leading to the discovery of a wide category of materials including …

First-order magnetostructural transformation can be utilized to generate giant
magnetocaloric effect for the magnetic refrigeration applications, but the intrinsic hysteresis …

This paper presents direct and indirect methods for studying the elastocaloric effect (eCE) in
shape memory materials and its comparison. The eCE can be characterized by the adiabatic …

Magnetic cooling has been researched as an alternative near room-temperature
refrigeration technology for the past two decades. However, one of its greatest limitations is …

Efficiency improvements in heat pump can drastically reduce global energy demand. Caloric
heat pumps are currently being investigated as a potentially more efficient alternative to …

Cooling with caloric materials could be an option to replace compressor-based cooling
systems in the future. In addition to the advantage of avoiding dangerous liquid coolants …