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 …

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 …

Spin crossover iron complexes with spin transition near room temperature based on nitrogen ligands containing aromatic rings: From molecular design to functional …

Y Zhang, R Torres-Cavanillas, X Yan, Y Zeng… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
During last decades, significant advances have been made in iron-based spin crossover
(SCO) complexes, with a particular emphasis on achieving reversible and reproducible …

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 …

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 …

Colossal Reversible Barocaloric Effects in Layered Hybrid Perovskite (C10H21NH3)2MnCl4 under Low Pressure Near Room Temperature

J Li, M Barrio, DJ Dunstan, R Dixey… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Barocaloric effects in a layered hybrid organic–inorganic compound,(C10H21NH3) 2MnCl4,
that are reversible and colossal under pressure changes below 0.1 GPa are reported. This …

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 …