A wave of unconventional coolers are making their way to the air-conditioning market—and aiming to dial down its emissions.

Non-reciprocal heat transfer has the potential to shape the landscape of high-performance solid-state elastocaloric cooling technology as an eco-friendly alternative of traditional vapour-compression ...

Researchers have unveiled a breakthrough in solid-state cooling technology, doubling the efficiency of today's commercial systems. Driven by the Lab's patented nano-engineered thin-film thermoelectric ...

A startup founded by a material physicist has been working for the past seven years to change the way we cool our food and interior spaces, and it's now taken a big step toward that goal. Here's the ...

xMEMS Labs, a Santa Clara, California-based company that says it created the first monolithic silicon MEMS air pump, announced a solid-state cooling chip designed specifically for extended reality ...

Donut Lab has released additional details about the world’s first solid-state electric bike, the Verge TS Pro Gen2. The startup claims to have cracked the code to production-ready solid-state ...

Elastocaloric materials are a class of materials that exhibit a big change in temperature when exposed to mechanical stress. This could potentially make them useful as solid-state replacement for both ...

A collaborative research team from the Institute of Solid State Physics, the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has discovered a high-energy-density barocaloric ...

Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating technologies that do not rely on climate-damaging refrigerant gases. In ...