Call for Papers

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Billions of vapor-compressor devices employing potent greenhouse gases and with moderate efficiencies are responsible for ~8% of overall CO2-equivalent emissions. With this number increasing unceasingly and emerging regulations worldwide banning these fluids, developing more sustainable coolers and heaters is an urgent scientific and engineering challenge. This is leading to increasing efforts on this topic, like the “Clean and Efficient Cooling” Pathfinder Challenge EU call, aligned with the European Green Deal. According to a US DoE report, solid-state caloric materials are among the most promising alternatives. Although commercial competitiveness has yet to be achieved, the continuous improvement of figures of merit and an increasing number of publications and patents year after year are encouraging. This Symposium aims to bring together the state-of-the-art in the field of solid-state calorics, namely magnetocaloric, electrocaloric, mechanocaloric and multicaloric materials and devices, where new and improved solid refrigerants and designs will be presented to the community. From condensed matter physicochemistry to applications, from the atomistic scale to the macroscale, experimentally or theoretically, Symposium contributions will report on caloric materials including magnetocaloric behavior of new alloys at first-order or second-order transitions, in the cryogenic or room temperature regimes; novel lead-free electrocaloric ceramics, first-order or relaxors, and highly responsive polymers; fatigue-resistant shape-memory alloys and polymers for elastocaloric applications, and powerful barocaloric materials that respond reversibly at reduced pressures. Devices operating with passive or active regeneration and/or cascade modes and/or work recovery, and optimized material shapes for heat exchange will be also discussed. Other thermal-related applications of caloric materials (waste heat recovery, power generation, etc.) may be also presented.

Topics will include:

• Progress in magnetocaloric materials and devices: experiment, theory and modelling
• Progress in electrocaloric materials and devices: experiment, theory and modelling
• Progress in elastocaloric materials and devices: experiment, theory and modelling
• Progress in barocaloric materials and devices: experiment, theory and modelling
• Progress in multicaloric materials and devices: experiment, theory and modelling
• Thermal management developments
• Materials: alloys, ceramics, polymers, hybrids and composites
• Advances in theory, modelling and simulations
• New measurement and characterisation techniques
• Devices and applications

• A tutorial complementing this symposium is tentatively planned.

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• David Boldrin (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Luana Caron (Bielefeld University, Germany)
• Alexandre Magnus Gomes Carvalho (Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Asaya Fujita (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
• Oliver Gutfleisch (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany)
• Gian Guzman-Verri (University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica)
• Heike Herper (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Claire Hobday (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
• Fengxia Hu (Institute of Physics, Chinese Acadamy of Sciences, China)
• Bing Li (Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Lluis Mañosa Carrera (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
• Jarad Mason (Harvard University, USA)
• Neil D. Mathur (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Xavier Moya (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Qibing Pei (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• Patrick Rosa (Institut de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Bordeaux, France)
• Julie Slaughter (Iowa State University, USA)
• Ichiro Takeuchi (University of Maryland, USA)
• Alvar Torello (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
• Hana Ursic (Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)

Symposium Organizers