Advanced Materials for Application in Solid State Refrigeration
A special issue of Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 1988
Special Issue Editors
Interests: solid-state refrigeration; caloric effect; mean field theory; rare-earth; intermetallics; spin-crossover
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
One of the solid-state physics applications, among the countless technologies, is refrigeration, which has been used by humanity since prehistoric times. Currently, most refrigerators are based on the compression/decompression of gases, highlighted as being primarily responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer, as well as contributing to the greenhouse effect. An ecofriendly alternative would be to replace these gases with solid materials that exhibit one (or more) of the caloric effects, which correspond to the thermal responses when an external field is applied. This external field can be, for example, a magnetic field (magnocaloric), pressure (barocaloric), and stress (mechanocaloric).
Dr. Paula O. Ribeiro
Dr. Yaroslav Mudryk
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- solid-state refrigeration
- caloric effect
- magnetism
- magnetic materials
- phase transitions
- materials science
- cooling technologies
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