Solid-state refrigeration holds promise for environmentally friendly cooling with high energy
efficiency and downsize scalability. However, its refrigeration performance is notably inferior …

Magnetocaloric effect (MCE) exhibits highly efficient and ecological cooling abilities for solid-
state refrigeration in contrast to traditional vapor-compression refrigeration. Successive …

Nowadays around 46% of food production around the world requires refrigeration, which is
generally provided either by active vapour-compression (based on refrigerants with liquid …

Materials undergoing pressure-driven solid–solid phase transformations can be a valuable
alternative for eco-friendly refrigeration, heat pumping and waste heat recovery based on …

Solid-state refrigeration based on the barocaloric effect is an effective alternative to
traditional vapor compression refrigeration. Here 1-dodecanol has been studied due to its …

Plastic crystals PE (pentaerythritol) possess colossal barocaloric effect (BCE) that is
promising for solid-state refrigeration; however, the high phase transition temperature (> 400 …

Solid-state refrigeration using barocaloric materials is environmentally friendly and highly
efficient, making it a subject of global interest over the past decade. Here, we report giant …

Barocaloric (BC) materials provide cheaper and more energy efficient alternatives to
traditional refrigerants. Some liquid alkanes were recently shown to exhibit a colossal BC …

Materials exhibiting caloric effects can serve as green alternatives in place of the gas
refrigerants used in traditional vapor refrigeration systems, which are facing rising energy …

Barocaloric cooling, that is, lowering the temperature of a material under pressure action, is
an attractive solid‐state effect that can potentially compete with volatile gas‐based cooling …