Recent progress in the development of RE2TMTM'O6 double perovskite oxides for cryogenic magnetic refrigeration

L Li, M Yan - Journal of Materials Science & Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
The magnetic functional materials play a particularly important role in our modern society
and daily life. The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) is at the basis of a solid state magnetic …

Transforming heat transfer with thermal metamaterials and devices

Y Li, W Li, T Han, X Zheng, J Li, B Li, S Fan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The demand for sophisticated tools and approaches in heat management and control has
triggered the fast development of fields that include conductive thermal metamaterials …

Magnetic properties and giant cryogenic magnetocaloric effect in B-site ordered antiferromagnetic Gd2MgTiO6 double perovskite oxide

Y Zhang, Y Tian, Z Zhang, Y Jia, B Zhang, M Jiang… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The magnetic refrigeration (MR) technology by utilizing the magnetocaloric (MC) effects of
magnetic solids have been realized to be a promising energy efficiency and environmentally …

Rare‐Earth‐Free Mn30Fe20−xCuxAl50 Magnetocaloric Materials with Stable Cubic CsCl‐Type Structure for Room‐Temperature Refrigeration

Y Zhang, W Hao, C Hu, X Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic refrigeration technology based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) of magnetic
substances has been considered a prominent, energy‐efficient, and environmentally benign …

High-entropy polymer produces a giant electrocaloric effect at low fields

X Qian, D Han, L Zheng, J Chen, M Tyagi, Q Li, F Du… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
More than a decade of research on the electrocaloric (EC) effect has resulted in EC
materials and EC multilayer chips that satisfy a minimum EC temperature change of 5 K …

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 …

Electronic structure, magnetic properties and magnetocaloric performance in rare earths (RE) based RE2BaZnO5 (RE= Gd, Dy, Ho, and Er) compounds

P Xu, L Hu, Z Zhang, H Wang, L Li - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the rare earths (RE) based magnetic materials with various promising functional
characterizations are playing particularly important roles in present modern society and daily …

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 …

Exploiting the paddle-wheel mechanism for the design of fast ion conductors

Z Zhang, LF Nazar - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
As an indispensable component in solid-state devices, superionic conductors can exhibit
liquid-like and exceptionally high alkali cation conductivity in their crystalline lattices. A …

Emerging solid‐to‐solid phase‐change materials for thermal‐energy harvesting, storage, and utilization

A Usman, F Xiong, W Aftab, M Qin, R Zou - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Phase‐change materials (PCMs) offer tremendous potential to store thermal energy during
reversible phase transitions for state‐of‐the‐art applications. The practicality of these …