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This text covers the wealth of barocaloric materials science while presenting an array of advanced research methods, both standard and custom-built, lab-scale and large-scale, experimental, theoretical and modelling. Topics include barocaloric effects in polymers, magnetic materials, ferroelastic fluorides and oxyfluorides, spin crossover complexes, hybrid perovskites and plastic crystals. The book also includes atomic simulations of barocaloric effects, and an evaluation of the energy performances and the environmental impact of the barocaloric effect for refrigeration. This book brings together the most relevant knowledge generated so far, comprehensively and in detail, in order to serve as a basis for graduate students as well as experienced researchers interested in entering the field.
Key Features
- First book on barocaloric effects in the solid-state
- Provides a detailed review of the performance of barocaloric materials and measurement methods
- Covers materials, characterisation, methods and approaches
- Analyses the fundamental physics underlying barocaloric effects
- Includes engineering considerations for barocaloric applications
Chapter 3: We acknowledge the Brazilian agencies, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico- CNPq and Fundacao Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-FAPERJ, for financial support.
Chapter 6: The authors thank María Antonia Señarís-Rodríguez, Manuel Sánchez-Andújar and Socorro Castro-García for useful discussions. The authors also acknowledge financial support from the projects PID2021-122532OB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and by FEDER “Una manera de hacer Europa”, the project PDC2021-121076-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union «Next GenerationEU»/PRTR», and the project ED431C 2022/39 funded by Xunta de Galicia. J.M.B.G also acknowledges the financial support of the grant RYC2021-033040-I, funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and from European Union «NextGenerationEU»/PRTR», the UDCInditexInTalent Program, the Postdoctoral Research Project ED481D-2021-012 funded by Xunta de Galicia, and the collaboration agreement “Development of research strategic actions UDC I+D+i 2021-2022: CICA-Disrupting Projects 2021SEM-A3 (NanoCool). J.G.-B. thanks Xunta de Galicia for a Predoctoral Fellowship, and I.D.-F acknowledges Ministerio de Universidades for an FPU Predoctoral Fellowship.
Chapter 7: This work was supported by MINECO Projects No. PID2020-112975GB-I00 and TED2021-129952B-C31 (Spain), DGU Project No. 2017SGR-42 (Catalonia) and the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. ZDBS-LYJSC002).
1 Introduction to the barocaloric effect
2 Barocaloric effects in polymers
3 Barocaloric effect in magnetic and non-magnetic solid materials: theoretical approach and applications
4 Barocaloric effect in ferroelastic fluorides and oxyfluorides
5 Spin crossover complexes for barocaloric cooling
6 Hybrid organic–inorganic materials: introducing soft barocaloric materials for low-pressure applications
7 Colossal barocaloric plastic crystals
8 Atomistic simulation of barocaloric effects
9 The use of the barocaloric effect for refrigeration: an evaluation of the energy performances and the environmental impact