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Materials with Giant Mechanocaloric Effects: Cooling by Strength
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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 devices, which are both efficient and clean, and that can successfully replace present refrigeration technologies. There are three main families of caloric materials: magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, and mechanocaloric. While magnetocaloric and electrocaloric materials have been studied intensively in the last few decades, mechanocaloric materials are only very recently receiving a great deal of attention. The mechanocaloric effect refers to the reversible thermal response of a solid when subjected to an external mechanical field, and encompasses both the elastocaloric effect, corresponding to a uniaxial force, and the barocaloric effect, which corresponds to the response to hydrostatic pressure. Here, the state of the art in giant mechanocaloric effects is reviewed and a critical analysis of the thermodynamic quantities that characterize the major families of barocaloric and elastocaloric materials is provided. Finally perspectives for further development in this area are given.
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MAÑOSA, Lluís and PLANES VILA, Antoni. Materials with Giant Mechanocaloric Effects: Cooling by Strength. Advanced Materials. 2017. Vol. 29, num. 11. ISSN 0935-9648. [consulted: 9 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/191486