Colossal barocaloric plastic crystals

Lloveras, P.*; Zhang, Z.*; Zeng, M.*; Barrio, M.*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Yu, D.*; Lin, S.*; Li, K.*; Moya, X.*; Tamarit, J.-L.*; et al.

Barocaloric Effects in the Solid State; Materials and methods, p.7_1 - 7_30, 2023/10

https://iopscience.iop.org/book/edit/978-0-7503-4690-0.pdf

As Chapter 1 of the ebook entitled as "Barocaloric Effects in the Solid State", various plastic crystals (PC) showing colossal barocaloric (BC) effect are introduced. A method to determine the BC response in PCs, thermodynamic origin of BC effects, spectroscopic insights from quasi-elastic neutron scattering and application of PCs are explained.