Symposium EE11-Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications

With the ever-growing demand for specialised energy applications, caloric materials offer a promising and novel route to providing high-efficiency solid-state refrigeration solutions for air-conditioning and other heat-pumping applications. Caloric materials are characterised by an entropic thermal change that arises due to a change of external field that may be electric, mechanical or magnetic. This phenomenon is generically known as the caloric effect, and is typically studied under adiabatic or isothermal conditions. Caloric materials have high scientific relevance for the development of future environmentally friendly refrigeration devices, which represent a strategic route to mitigating CO₂ emissions through increased efficiency. This symposium will address the use of caloric materials in renewable energy applications, concentrating on a multidisciplinary approach of the physics, chemistry, materials science, and engineering needed to advance this field.

Experimental and theoretical progress made in the areas of structural, functional and chemical analysis will be emphasized, along with issues related to the synthesis and preparation of these important materials. Synergies between the classes of caloric effects will be sought to assist fundamental understanding of the responses of the materials to the externally applied fields.

• Magnetocaloric materials
• Electrocaloric materials
• Elastocaloric materials
• Barocaloric materials
• Applications and devices
• Basic phenomena, theory, modeling and simulations from atomic to macro scale

• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _0 (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _1 (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _2 (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), Luxembourg)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _3 (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _4 (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _5 (Institute of Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _6 (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _7 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _8 (Ames Laboratory, USA)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _9 (University of Victoria, Canada)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _10 (Astronautics, USA)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _11 (Brooklyn College, USA)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _12 (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _13 (IFW Dresden, Germany)
• EE11_Caloric Materials for Renewable Energy Applications _14 (Pennsylvania State University, USA)