In this paper, the application of solid-state cooling based on the barocaloric effect in the cold food supply chain is investigated. Barocaloric solid-state technology is applied to the final links of the cold food supply chain regarding the steps of...
Pulse-magnetron-sputtered long-term superhydrophilic coatings have been synthesized to functionalize the surfaces of solid-state cooling devices, e.g., electrocaloric heat pumps, where not only a complete wetting of the surface by a fluid is intended...
The multicaloric effect is defined as the adiabatic reversible temperature change in multiferroic materials induced by the application of an external electric or magnetic field, and it was first theoretically proposed in 2012. The multicaloric effect...
Barocaloric is a solid-state not-in-kind technology, for cooling and heat pumping, rising as an alternative to the vapor compression systems. The former is based on solid-state refrigerants and the latter on fluid ones. The reference thermodynamical...
The effect of cooling on the degree of crystallinity, solid-state and dissolution properties of multi-component hot-melt extruded solid dispersions [SD] is of great interest for the successful formulation of amorphous SDs and is an area that is unrep...
With the rapid development of information science and technology, the demand for computer data processing is increasing, resulting in the rapid growth of the demand for high-power and high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs). The stable operation o...
It is well known that neural activity can be modulated using a cooling device. The applications of this technique range from the treatment of medication-resistant cerebral diseases to brain functional mapping. Despite the potential benefits of such t...
Barocaloric cooling is classified as environmentally friendly because of the employment of solid-state materials as refrigerants. The reference and well-established processes are based on the active barocaloric regenerative refrigeration cycle, where...
This work investigates the effect of nanoclay addition—specifically natural montmorillonite (MMT) and organo-modified montmorillonite (O-MMT)—on the elastocaloric performance of natural rubber (NR), a promising material for solid-state co...
Tunable mid-infrared lasers are widely used in laser spectroscopy, gas sensing and many other related areas. In order to solve heat dissipation problems and improve the environmental temperature adaptability of solid-state laser sources, a tunable al...
Elastocaloric cooling is recognized as a promising alternative to modern vapor-compression cooling systems, which often rely on environmentally hazardous refrigerants. Natural rubber (NR), a well-known renewable resource, stands out among elastomers...
The review of history and progress on radiation-balanced (athermal) lasers is presented with a special focus on rare earth (RE)-doped lasers. In the majority of lasers, heat generated inside the laser medium is an unavoidable product of the lasing pr...
Anti-Stokes photoluminescence (ASPL) is an up-conversion phonon-assisted process of radiative recombination of photoexcited charge carriers when the ASPL photon energy is above the excitation one. This process can be very efficient in nanocrystals (N...
By the method of molecular dynamics, computer simulation of the processes of isobaric cooling of argon particle systems under initial conditions with a temperature of 150 K at pressure values from 0.1 to 4 MPa to a temperature of 40 K with cooling ra...
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is widely used in bottle production due to its cost-effectiveness and low environmental impact. The first part of this article describes the research and statistical analysis methodology of the influence of the virgin...
Late-Variscan granitoid rocks of trondhjemitic and granitic composition, intruded in migmatitic paragneisses in the north-eastern Peloritani Mountains (southern Italy) at ~310 Ma and ~300 Ma, respectively, exhibit a range of deformation microstructur...
Despite the challenges of practical implementation, electrocaloric (EC) cooling remains a promising technology because of its good scalability and high efficiency. Here, we investigate the feasibility of an EC cooling device that couples the EC and e...
Due to its advantages of simple structure and high inherent safety, the heat pipe cooled reactor (HPR) could be widely applied in deep-sea navigation, deep-space exploration and land-based power supply as a promising advanced special nuclear power eq...
The present study was aimed at determining the surface strain/stress state in an Ni-based single-crystal (SC) superalloy that was subjected to two different cooling rates from solid solution temperature through using the X-ray diffraction (XRD) metho...
The successful development of an amorphous form of a drug demands the use of process conditions and materials that reduce their thermodynamic instability. For the first time, we have prepared amorphous ibrutinib using the quench-cooling method with v...
In this paper, a model to predict the thermal effects in a flashlamp-pumped direct-liquid-cooled split-disk Nd:LuAG ceramic laser amplifier has been presented. In addition to pumping distribution, the model calculates thermal-induced wavefront aberra...
Metallic glasses, with their short-range order structure, exhibit unique characteristics that do not exist in the corresponding crystalline alloys with the same compositions. These unusual properties are attributed to the absence of translational per...
Mechanocaloric cooling/heat pumping with zero carbon emission and high efficiency shows great potential for replacing traditional refrigeration with vapor compression. Mechanocaloric prototypes that are developed using shape memory alloys (SMAs) face...
It has been shown in the past that pulsed laser systems operating in the so-called “burst mode” are a beneficial approach to generate high peak power laser pulses at high repetition rates suitable for various applications. So far, most high-energy bu...
Background/Objectives: This study aims to broaden the knowledge on co-amorphous phospholipid systems (CAPSs) by exploring the formation of CAPSs with a broader range of poorly water-soluble drugs, celecoxib (CCX), furosemide (FUR), nilotinib (NIL), a...
Electrocaloric is a novel emerging not-in-kind cooling technology based on solid-state materials exhibiting the electrocaloric effect, i.e., the property of changing their temperature because of an adiabatic change in the intensity of the electric fi...
Solid-state caloric cooling is a viable route toward a more sustainable way of refrigerating. The refrigerants are solid-state materials with a caloric effect detectable by measuring a temperature variation through an external-field intensity change....
This research explores how varying proportions of virgin polyethylene terephthalate (vPET) and recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) in vPET-rPET blends, combined with preform thermal conditions during the stretch blow molding (SBM) process, inf...
Benzaldehydes are components of atmospheric aerosol that are poorly represented in current vapour pressure predictive techniques. In this study the solid state (
BaTiO3 (BT)-based lead-free ceramics are regarded as highly promising candidates for solid-state electrocaloric (EC) cooling devices due to their large spontaneous polarizations, shiftable Curie temperatures, and environmental friendliness. This revi...
A concept for the application of a magnetocaloric device in energy-efficient air conditioners is introduced. In order to evaluate this concept, a test stand has been developed equipped with a magnetic field source providing about a 1.5-T flux density...
The motivation of the presented paper is the desire to create a universal tool to analyse the process of austenite decomposition during the cooling process of various steel grades. The presented analysis concerns the application of Recurrent Artifici...
The mechanism of solid-state dendrite formation in high-aluminum Fe-Al alloys is not clear. Applying an in-situ observation technique, the real-time formation and growth of FeAl solid-state dendrites during the eutectoid decomposition of the high-tem...
Manganites of the family La0.7Ca0.3−xSrxMnO3 were fabricated by four preparation methods: (a) the microwave-assisted sol-gel Pechini method; (b) sol-gel Pechini chemical synthesis; (c) solid-state reaction with a planetary mill; and (d) solid-s...
We propose a method of cooling nuclear spin systems of solid-state nanostructures by applying a time-dependent magnetic field synchronized with spin fluctuations. Optical spin noise spectroscopy is considered a method of fluctuation control. Dependin...
This paper presents a comprehensive comparative analysis of high-voltage, high-frequency pulse generation techniques for Pockels cell drivers. These drivers are critical in electro-optic systems for laser modulation, where nanosecond-scale voltage pu...
High-power solid-state lasers are among the hot research directions at the forefront of laser research and have major applications in industrial processing, laser-confined nuclear fusion, and high-energy particle sources. In this paper, the propertie...
In the classical approach to dealing with near-field radiative heat exchange between two closely spaced bodies, no coupling between the different heat carriers inside the materials and thermal photons is usually considered. Here, we provide an overvi...
We prepared a dense AgNbO3 ceramic using a conventional solid-state reaction method. The phase structure, electrical properties and electrocaloric effect (ECE) were systematically investigated. Large negative and positive ECEs (−4.38 °C at...
A compact broadband combiner with a high power capacity and a low insertion loss, which is especially useful for solid-state power sources where multi-way power synthesis is needed, was designed and experimentally investigated. The combiner could com...
The LiF–BeF2 system is used as a heat transfer medium in molten salt reactors (MSRs). The thermal diffusivity of Li2BeF4 was studied using the laser flash analysis (LFA) method in solid and transition states. While the thermal diffusivity is sh...
We report on the use of an atmospheric pressure, open-air plasma treatment to remove Li2CO3 species from the surface of garnet-type tantalum-doped lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (Li6.4La3Zr1.4Ta0.6O12, LLZTO) solid-state electrolyte pellets. The L...
Solid-state and sol-gel syntheses were selected as easy and scalable methods to prepare a lithium-rich cathode material for lithium-ion batteries. Among the extended family of layered oxides, Li1.2Ni0.2Mn0.6O2 was chosen for its low nickel content an...
This study aimed to isolate a thermotolerant acetic acid bacteria (AAB) strain from Zhenjiang aromatic vinegar (ZAV) and evaluate its potential as a starter culture for high-temperature solid-state vinegar fermentation. Acetobacter pasteurianus TCBRC...
In crystalline molecular solids, in the absence of strong intermolecular interactions, entropy-driven processes play a key role in the formation of dynamically modulated transient phases. Specifically, in crystalline simvastatin, the observed fully r...
A high power and efficiency mid-infrared optical parametric oscillator based on a BaGa4Se7 crystal is demonstrated in this paper. It was pumped by a 500 Hz Q-switched Nd:YAG laser at room temperature. Without cooling, up to 0.76 W output power at 4.4...
A representative of the fluoride-containing iron pnictide high-temperature superconductors, namely CaFFeAs, was doped with sodium up to the composition Ca0.86Na0.14FFeAs for the first time. Single crystals with an edge length in the range of 0.1 – 2...
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[FeII(LHiPr)2(NCS)2] (LHiPr = N-2-pyridylmethylene-4-isopropylaniline) showed an abrupt spin-crossover (SCO) at T1/2↓ = 154 K on cooling and at T1/2↑ = 167 K on heating. The thermal hysteresis with a width of 13 K is related with the structural soli...
California growers in the San Joaquin Valley believe that climate change will affect the pistachio yield dramatically. As the central valley fog disappears, insufficient dormant chill accumulation results in poor flowering synchrony, flower quality,...
Over the past years, thermoelectric refrigeration has attracted considerable attention due to its compact size, reliability, and environmental friendliness. Traditional refrigeration systems use greenhouse gases, which significantly impacts our envir...
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