Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201806642
Keywords
cooling power density; electrocaloric effect; ferroelectric polymer; heat transfer; nanoconfinement
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Funding
- National Science Foundation of China [51772108, 61675076, 61705070]
- US National Science Foundation [CMMI1361713]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0402705]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2017M612449, 2017T200545]
- Analytical and Testing Center, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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The electrocaloric effect (ECE) offers a unique mechanism to realize environmentally friendly and highly efficient solid-state cooling that completely differs from the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration. Here a new class of hybrid films composed of ferroelectric polymer nanowire array and anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane is reported, which displays pronounced ECE driven by relatively low electric fields. Under confinement and orientation of AAO channels on the crystallization of the polymer, the polymer nanowire array shows substantially enhanced ECE that is about three times that of the corresponding thin films. Simultaneously, the integrated AAO membrane forms thermally conducting channels for the polymer nanowires, enabling the efficient transfer of cooling energy and operation of the EC materials under high frequencies, which are unattainable based on the currently available EC structures. Consequently, the integrated polymer nanowire-AAO hybrid film exhibits the state-of-the-art cooling power density, outperforming the current ferroelectric polymers, ceramics, and composites. This work opens a new route for the development of scalable, high-performance EC materials for next-generation refrigeration.
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