The most widespread cooling techniques based on gas compression/expansion encounter environmental problems. Thus, tremendous effort has been dedicated to develop alternative cooling technique and search for solid state materials that show large caloric effects. An application of pressure to a material can cause a change in temperature, which is called the barocaloric effect. Here we report the giant barocaloric effect in a hexagonal Ni₂In-type MnCoGe_0.99In_0.01compound involving magnetostructural transformation, T_mstr, which is accompanied with a big difference in the internal energy due to a great negative lattice expansion(ΔV/V ~ 3.9%)

Źródło: Giant barocaloric effect in hexagonal Ni2In-type Mn-Co-Ge-In compounds around room temperature : Scientific Reports