Elastocaloric cooling has experienced fast development over the past decade owing to its
potential to reshape the refrigeration industry. While the solid-state elastocaloric refrigerant …

Minimizing the utilization of fossil fuels and mitigating CO 2 emissions are two of the most
significant worldwide concerns in the current century. The pervasive waste heat not only …

Phase change materials (PCMs) show substantial promise in regulating the supply and
demand of renewable energy and in recovering and utilizing waste heat. However, existing …

Despite the emergence of colossal barocaloric materials with great potential to replace
environmentally unfriendly vapor-compression refrigerants, a scalable and cyclic reversible …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE) defies the conventional wisdom of lattice dynamics and
offers a novel way to control the expansion coefficient and address some challenges in …

Mn 3 Pt metal compounds are promising candidates for barocaloric cooling applications for
their high thermal conductivity and pressure sensitivity. However, they are constrained by …

The thermal hysteresis exhibited in plastic crystal compounds greatly reduces their cyclic
efficiency, limiting their potential for replacing current environmentally harmful refrigerants. A …

In 2005, Science magazine listed the “nature of a glassy substance” as one of the 125 most
challenging scientific questions of the century. A quantitative understanding of the time …