Journal
NATURE REVIEWS MATERIALS
Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 633-652Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41578-022-00428-x
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grant) [12002013, 51976149]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [501LKQB2020105028]
- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-EE0009159]
- Young Elite Scientist Sponsorship Program by CAST [2019QNRC001]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (CPSF grant) [2020M683471]
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The development of multicaloric materials has opened up new avenues for heat extraction and technological applications. With the increasing calls for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving energy efficiency, research in alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies is gaining momentum.
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric effect is the reversible change in temperature and entropic states of a solid material subjected to one or more fields and can be exploited to achieve cooling. The field of caloric cooling has undergone a series of transformations over the past 50 years, bolstered by the advent of new materials and devices, and these developments have contributed to the emergence of multicalorics in the past decade. Multicaloric materials display one or more types of ferroic order that can give rise to multiple field-induced phase transitions that can enhance various aspects of caloric effects. These materials could open up new avenues for extracting heat and spearhead hitherto unknown technological applications. In this Review, we survey the emerging field of multicaloric cooling and explore state-of-the-art caloric materials and systems (devices) that are responsive to multiple fields. We present our vision of the future applications of multicaloric and caloric cooling and examine key factors that govern the overall system efficiency of the cooling devices.
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