Abstract:The emergent cooling technologies based on the caloric effect provide a green alternative to the conventional vapor-compression one which brings about the serious environment problem. However, the existing caloric materials are much inferior to their traditional counterparts in cooling performance. Here we report the colossal barocaloric effect in liquid-solid-transition materials, i.e. n-alkanes. Their excellent cooling performance is superior to those for existing caloric materials and comparable to those of… Show more
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