Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

The search for materials with large caloric effects has become a major challenge in material
science due to their potential in developing near room‐temperature solid‐state cooling …

Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising
replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary …

Solid-state cooling based on elastocaloric effect (eCE), ie, a temperature change coupled to
an applied uniaxial stress in elastocaloric materials (eCMs), is an emerging refrigeration …

Cooling and thermal management comprise a major part of global energy consumption. The
by far most widespread cooling technology today is vapor compression, reaching rather high …

Elastocaloric cooling has been identified as a promising alternative to high global warming
potential vapor compression cooling. Two key bottlenecks to adoption are the need for …

The elastocaloric effect associated with the stress-induced first order phase transformation in
pseudoelastic shape memory alloy (SMA) films and foils is of special interest for cooling …

One of the challenging issues in studying the fatigue behaviors of NiTi shape memory alloy
is the interaction between the material damage and material's martensitic phase …

The global trend of miniaturization and concomitant increase of functionality in
microelectronics, microoptics, and various other fields in microtechnology leads to an …

The work presents a thermomechanical model for polycrystalline NiTi-based shape memory
alloys developed within the framework of generalized standard solids, which is able to cover …