Symposium ES8-Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications

Magnetocaloric, electrocaloric and mechanocaloric effects are reversible thermal changes that are currently studied near phase transitions in magnetically, electrically and mechanically responsive materials due to changes in magnetic, electric and mechanical field. These materials could replace harmful fluids for refrigeration and air-conditioning, and improve energy efficiency of gas liquefactors, so it is important to understand the underlying phenomena behind outstanding caloric materials in order to improve system performance in terms of temperature span, cooling-power density, and energy efficiency.

This symposium will cover all types of caloric material and will range from fundamental aspects to applications of such materials in systems. Multidisciplinary topics related to physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering will be cross-fertilised by invited presentations in order to accelerate the development of these materials toward applications.

Topics will include:

Magnetocaloric materials
Electrocaloric materials
Mechanocaloric (elastocaloric and barocaloric) materials
Multicaloric effects
Devices and applications
Mutiscale theory, modelling and simulations, from atomistic to mesoscopic to macroscopic level

Invited Speakers:

ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _0 (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _1 (Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Germany)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _2 (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _3 (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _4 (Murata, Japan)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _5 (GE Global Research, USA)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _6 (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _7 (Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, China)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _8 (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _9 (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _10 (Ames Laboratory, USA)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _11 (University of South Florida, USA)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _12 (University of South Florida, USA)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _13 (TU Denmark, Denmark)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _14 (Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _15 (University of Warwick, United Kingdom)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _16 (University of Maryland, USA)
ES8_Caloric Materials for Energy-Efficient Applications _17 (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)