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Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing. Science 366 (6469) (2019) 1116-1121

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H. Hou, E. Simsek, T. Ma, N.S. Johnson, S. Qian, C. Cissé, D. Stasak, N. Al Hasan, L. Zhou, Y. Hwang, R. Radermacher, V.I. Levitas, M.J. Kramer, M. Asle Zaeem, A.P. Stebner, R.T. Ott, J. Cui, I. Takeuchi. Fatigue-resistant high-performance elastocaloric materials made by additive manufacturing. Science 366 (6469) (2019) 1116-1121.

Abstract

Elastocaloric cooling, a solid-state cooling technology, exploits the latent heat released and absorbed by stress-induced phase transformations. Hysteresis associated with transformation, however, is detrimental to efficient energy conversion and functional durability. We have created thermodynamically efficient, low-hysteresis elastocaloric cooling materials by means of additive manufacturing of nickel-titanium. The use of a localized molten environment and near-eutectic mixing of elemental powders has led to the formation of nanocomposite microstructures composed of a nickel-rich intermetallic compound interspersed among a binary alloy matrix. The microstructure allowed extremely small hysteresis in quasi-linear stress-strain behaviors—enhancing the materials efficiency by a factor of four to seven—and repeatable elastocaloric performance over 1 million cycles. Implementing additive manufacturing to elastocaloric cooling materials enables distinct microstructure control of high-performance metallic refrigerants with long fatigue life.

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huilong hou's picture

Dear Professor Mohsen Asle Zaeem,

Thank you very much for sharing the work with the colleagues in the mechanics community. We had a great collaboration in this work. 

Sincerely,

Huliong

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