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 …

Electrocaloric coolers: a review

A Torelló, E Defay - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of giant electrocaloric effects, researchers are intensively studying
electrocaloric cooling as an alternative to vapor compression systems to develop more …

Freestanding complex-oxide membranes

D Pesquera, A Fernández, E Khestanova… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Complex oxides show a vast range of functional responses, unparalleled within the
inorganic solids realm, making them promising materials for applications as varied as next …

Room‐Temperature Symmetric Giant Positive and Negative Electrocaloric Effect in PbMg0.5W0.5O3 Antiferroelectric Ceramic

J Li, HH Wu, J Li, X Su, R Yin, S Qin… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As an emerging solid‐state refrigeration technology with zero‐emission and high energy
conversion efficiency, there is a compelling need for ferroelectric materials with giant …

Boosting room-temperature electrocaloric performance in B-site complex antiferroelectrics: a synergistic design approach

Y Huang, L Zhang, P Ge, Y Yang, R Jing, V Shur… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
As an emerging eco-friendly solid-state refrigeration technology boasting high energy
conversion efficiency, there is a pressing demand for ferroelectrics exhibiting significant …

Antiferroelectric oxide thin-films: Fundamentals, properties, and applications

Y Si, T Zhang, C Liu, S Das, B Xu, RG Burkovsky… - Progress in Materials …, 2024 - Elsevier
Antiferroelectrics have received blooming interests because of a wide range of potential
applications in energy storage, solid-state cooling, thermal switch, transducer, actuation, and …

General approach for efficient prediction of refrigeration performance in caloric materials

X Xu, W Xie, F Li, C Niu, M Li, H Wang - Physical Review Applied, 2024 - APS
Solid-state refrigeration holds promise for environmentally friendly cooling with high energy
efficiency and downsize scalability. However, its refrigeration performance is notably inferior …

Design of polar boundaries enhancing negative electrocaloric performance by antiferroelectric phase-field simulations

K Xu, X Shi, C Shao, S Dong, H Huang - npj Computational Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Electrocaloric refrigeration which is environmentally benign has attracted considerable
attention. In distinction to ferroelectric materials, which exhibit an extremely high positive …

Structural phase transition and in-situ energy storage pathway in nonpolar materials: a review

XK Wei, RE Dunin-Borkowski, J Mayer - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Benefitting from exceptional energy storage performance, dielectric-based capacitors are
playing increasingly important roles in advanced electronics and high-power electrical …

High strain and energy-storage density across a wide temperature range in fine PbHfO3 ceramics

H Wan, Z Liu, W Yang, N Zhang, M Shen, Z An, P Gao… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Antiferroelectric materials exhibit fantastic application potential in multifunctional devices
due to their special structure and polarization/strain-electric field responses. However, it has …