Due to its high energy efficiency and environmental friendliness,solid-state cooling based on the barocaloric(BC)effect represents a promising alternative to traditional refrigeration technologies relying on greenhous...Due to its high energy efficiency and environmental friendliness,solid-state cooling based on the barocaloric(BC)effect represents a promising alternative to traditional refrigeration technologies relying on greenhouse gases.Plastic crystals displaying orientational order-disorder solid-solid phase transitions have emerged among the most gifted materials on which to realize the full potential of BC solid-state cooling.However,a comprehensive understanding of the atomistic mechanisms on which order-disorder BC effects are sustained is still missing,and rigorous and systematic methods for quantitatively evaluating and anticipating them have not been yet established.展开更多
基金supported by the MINECO Projects PID2020-112975GB-I00 and TED2021-130265B-C22(Spain)by the DGU Project 2021SGR-00343(Catalonia)+2 种基金C.C.acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities under the“Ramón y Cajal”fellowship RYC2018-024947-IC.E.-S.acknowledges financial support from the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities under the“Becas Margarita Salas para la formación de doctores jóvenes”fellowship 2021UPC-MS-67395Additional computational support was provided by the Red Española de Supercomputación(RES)under the grants FI-2022-1-0006,FI-2022-2-0003 and FI-2022-3-0014.
文摘Due to its high energy efficiency and environmental friendliness,solid-state cooling based on the barocaloric(BC)effect represents a promising alternative to traditional refrigeration technologies relying on greenhouse gases.Plastic crystals displaying orientational order-disorder solid-solid phase transitions have emerged among the most gifted materials on which to realize the full potential of BC solid-state cooling.However,a comprehensive understanding of the atomistic mechanisms on which order-disorder BC effects are sustained is still missing,and rigorous and systematic methods for quantitatively evaluating and anticipating them have not been yet established.
