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 …

Giant and Reversible Barocaloric Effect in Trinuclear Spin‐Crossover Complex Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6

M Romanini, YX Wang, K Gürpinar… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A giant barocaloric effect (BCE) in a molecular material Fe3 (bntrz) 6 (tcnset) 6 (FBT) is
reported, where bntrz= 4‐(benzyl)‐1, 2, 4‐triazole and tcnset= 1, 1, 3, 3‐tetracyano‐2 …

Colossal and reversible barocaloric effect in liquid-solid-transition materials n-alkanes

J Lin, P Tong, K Zhang, K Tao, W Lu, X Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging caloric cooling technology provides a green alternative to conventional vapor-
compression technology which brings about serious environmental problems. However, the …

Advances and obstacles in pressure-driven solid-state cooling: A review of barocaloric materials

P Lloveras, JL Tamarit - MRS Energy & Sustainability, 2021 - Springer
Highlights Barocaloric methods offer the widest range among solid-state caloric materials
where to pick and choose. However, ideal barocaloric materials do not exist and a trade-off …

Driving barocaloric effects in a molecular spin-crossover complex at low pressures

J Seo, JD Braun, VM Dev, JA Mason - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Barocaloric effects─ thermal changes in a material induced by applied hydrostatic
pressure─ offer promise for creating solid-state refrigerants as alternatives to conventional …

Elastic properties related energy conversions of coordination polymers and metal–organic frameworks

K Li, Y Qin, ZG Li, TM Guo, LC An, W Li, N Li… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2022 - Elsevier
Coordination polymers and metal–organic frameworks are now at the forefront of materials
science due to their abundant structural variability and facile functional tunability …

Cooling through barocaloric effect: A review of the state of the art up to 2022

L Cirillo, A Greco, C Masselli - Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, 2022 - Elsevier
Barocaloric is the more recent among the caloric technologies employing solid-state
materials. The name derives from BaroCaloric Effect (BCE), the phenomenon responsible of …

Fantastic barocalorics and where to find them

D Boldrin - Applied Physics Letters, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Barocaloric materials have the potential to offer greener and more efficient alternatives to
conventional refrigerants that exploit vapor compression for cooling and heating …

Ultrasensitive barocaloric material for room-temperature solid-state refrigeration

Q Ren, J Qi, D Yu, Z Zhang, R Song, W Song… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
One of the greatest obstacles to the real application of solid-state refrigeration is the huge
driving fields. Here, we report a giant barocaloric effect in inorganic NH4I with reversible …