Araceli Aznar

TL;DR: In this article, the reversible barocaloric response of four plastic crystals derived from neopentane [C(CH3)4] was determined, and the minimum pressure needed to achieve reversible effects, prev, for each compound was determined using the quasi-direct method.

TL;DR: Moderate changes of hydrostatic pressure are used to drive giant and reversible inverse barocaloric effects near room temperature in the notoriously brittle magnetocaloric material MnCoGeB0.03.

TL;DR: In this paper, a giant barocaloric effect (BCE) in a molecular material Fe3 (bntrz)6 (tcnset)6 is reported, where the crystal structure of FBT contains a trinuclear transition metal complex that undergoes an abrupt spin-state switching between the state in which all three FeII centers are in the high-spin (S ǫ 2) electronic configuration and the state of which all of them are in a low-spin configuration.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that plastic crystals of neopentylglycol (CH3)2C(CH2OH)2 display extremely large pressure-driven thermal changes near room temperature due to molecular reconfiguration, that these changes outperform those observed in any type of caloric material, and these changes are comparable with those exploited commercially in hydrofluorocarbons.