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    Thermal batteries based on inverse barocaloric effects
    (Science Advances, 2023-02) Zhang, Z; Li, K; Lin, SC; Song, R; Yu, DH; Wang, Y; Wang, JF; Kawaguchi, S; Zhang, Z; Yu, CY; Li, XD; Chen, J; He, LH; Mole, RA; Yuan, B; Ren, QY; Qian, K; Cai, ZL; Yu, JG; Wang, MC; Zhao, CY; Tong, X; Zhang, ZD; Li, B
    To harvest and reuse low-temperature waste heat, we propose and realize an emergent concept-barocaloric thermal batteries based on the large inverse barocaloric effect of ammonium thiocyanate (NH4SCN). Thermal charging is initialized upon pressurization through an order-to-disorder phase transition, and the discharging of 43 J g-1 takes place at depressurization, which is 11 times more than the input mechanical energy. The thermodynamic equilibrium nature of the pressure-restrained heat-carrying phase guarantees stable long-duration storage. The barocaloric thermal batteries reinforced by their solid microscopic mechanism are expected to substantially advance the ability to take advantage of waste heat. Copyright © 2023 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC).
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    Ultrasensitive barocaloric material for room-temperature solid-state refrigeration
    (Springer Nature, 2022-04-28) Ren, QY; Qi, J; Yu, DH; Zhang, Z; Song, R; Song, WL; Yuan, B; Wang, TH; Ren, WJ; Zhang, ZD; Tong, X; Li, B
    One of the greatest obstacles to the real application of solid-state refrigeration is the huge driving fields. Here, we report a giant barocaloric effect in inorganic NH4I with reversible entropy changes of ΔSmax P0!P ∼71 J K−1 kg−1 around room temperature, associated with a structural phase transition. The phase transition temperature, Tt, varies dramatically with pressure at a rate of dTt/dP ∼0.79 K MPa−1, which leads to a very small saturation driving pressure of ΔP ∼40 MPa, an extremely large barocaloric strength of ΔSmax P0!P=ΔP∼1.78 J K−1 kg−1 MPa−1, as well as a broad temperature span of ∼41 K under 80 MPa. Comprehensive characterizations of the crystal structures and atomic dynamics by neutron scattering reveal that a strong reorientation-vibration coupling is responsible for the large pressure sensitivity of Tt. This work is expected to advance the practical application of barocaloric refrigeration. © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.