Heusler alloys: Past, properties, new alloys, and prospects

S Tavares, K Yang, MA Meyers - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Heusler alloys, discovered serendipitously at the beginning of the twentieth century, have
emerged in the twenty-first century as exciting materials for numerous remarkable functional …

Energy applications of magnetocaloric materials

A Kitanovski - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing

H Hou, E Simsek, T Ma, NS Johnson, S Qian, C Cissé… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and
absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with …

High-performance cooling and heat pumping based on fatigue-resistant elastocaloric effect in compression

Ž Ahčin, S Dall'Olio, A Žerovnik, UŽ Baškovič… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
In recent years, elastocaloric cooling has shown great potential as an alternative to vapor-
compression refrigeration. However, there is still no existing elastocaloric device that offers …

Colossal elastocaloric effect in ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti alloys

D Cong, W Xiong, A Planes, Y Ren, L Mañosa, P Cao… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising
replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary …

Materials with giant mechanocaloric effects: cooling by strength

L Mañosa, A Planes - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

A regenerative elastocaloric heat pump

J Tušek, K Engelbrecht, D Eriksen, S Dall'Olio, J Tušek… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
A large fraction of global energy use is for refrigeration and air-conditioning, which could be
decarbonized if efficient renewable energy technologies could be found. Vapour …

A review of elastocaloric cooling: Materials, cycles and system integrations

S Qian, Y Geng, Y Wang, J Ling, Y Hwang… - International journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Elastocaloric cooling is a new alternative solid-state cooling technology undergoing early
stage research and development. This study presents a comprehensive review of key issues …

Enhancing cooling performance of NiTi elastocaloric tube refrigerant via internal grooving

J Zhang, Y Zhu, S Cheng, S Yao, Q Sun - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
Developing novel heat transfer surface structure on NiTi shape memory alloy tubes has big
potential to enhance the elastocaloric cooling performance. In this work, an internally …

A compact elastocaloric refrigerator

Y Chen, Y Wang, W Sun, S Qian, J Liu - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Elastocaloric cooling is regarded as one of the most promising cutting-edge alternatives to
conventional vapor compression refrigeration systems. This technology is based on the …