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 …

Solid-state cooling by elastocaloric polymer with uniform chain-lengths

S Zhang, Q Yang, C Li, Y Fu, H Zhang, Z Ye… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Although the elastocaloric effect was found in natural rubber as early as 160 years ago,
commercial elastocaloric refrigeration based on polymer elastomers has stagnated owing to …

Ultra-high endurance silicon photonic memory using vanadium dioxide

JJ Seoane, J Parra, J Navarro-Arenas, M Recaman… - npj …, 2024 - nature.com
Silicon photonics arises as a viable solution to address the stringent resource demands of
emergent technologies, such as neural networks. Within this framework, photonic memories …

A Novel Route for the Easy Production of Thermochromic VO2 Nanoparticles

AJ Santos, M Escanciano… - … A European Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this work, a simple, fast and dry method for the fabrication of a thermochromic product with
a high load of VO2 (M1) consisting of the controlled heat treatment of pure vanadium …

Combining magnetocaloric and elastocaloric effects to achieve a broad refrigeration temperature region in Ni43Mn41Co5Sn11 alloy

P Cheng, G Zhang, Z Li, B Yang, Z Zhang… - Journal of Magnetism …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solid state refrigeration is promising to replace the traditional vapor compression
refrigeration technology because of the environment friendliness and energy saving. The …

Comparative analysis of elastocaloric and barocaloric effects in single-crystal and ceramic ferroelectric (NH4) 2SO4

E Mikhaleva, M Gorev, V Bondarev, E Bogdanov… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
We report the influence of anisotropy and texture on elasto (ElCE)-and baro (BCE)-caloric
effects in single-crystal and ceramic (NH 4) 2 SO 4. Inverse extensive and intensive ElCE in …

Rapid solidified ductile Cu-Al-Mn ribbon and its elastocaloric potential

G Ouyang, C Pan, B Hilliard… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Cu-Al-Mn alloys display martensitic transformation over a wide range of
temperatures. In addition to low cost, this alloy is known for its low transformation stress with …

The Role of Chemical Pressure in the Formation of the Structure and Barocaloric Properties of Complex Fluorides and Oxyfluorides

IN Flerov, MV Gorev, EV Bogdanov… - Crystallography Reports, 2023 - Springer
The role of chemical pressure as an effective tool in the processes of formation of initial and
distorted (as a result of structural transformations) phases, thermodynamic properties, and …

Роль химического давления в формировании структуры и барокалорических свойств комплексных фторидов и оксифторидов

ИН Флёров, МВ Горев, ЕВ Богданов, НМ Лапташ - Кристаллография, 2023 - elibrary.ru
Выполнены исследования роли химического давления в качестве эффективного
инструмента в процессах формирования исходных и искаженных в результате …

Barocaloric effect in ferroelastic fluorides and oxyfluorides

IN Flerov, EV Bogdanov, MV Gorev - Barocaloric Effects in the …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This chapter deals with significant conventional and/or inverse barocaloric effects in a series
of fluoro-A2A'MF6 and oxyfluorometallates A2A'MO x F6-x containing octahedral or quasi …