Refrigerant-based cooling and heating technologies are everywhere. We use them in refrigerators, air conditioners, supermarket chillers, heat pumps, cars, data...

12 January 2026 | Eleonora Rusconi, IMEM-CNR, Parma, Italy | Blog Materials are so ubiquitous that they have almost become...

04 December 2025 | André Beleza, Néel, Grenoble, France Turning Waste Heat into Useful Energy Every day, enormous amounts of...

Magnetocaloric cooling is often explained with one simple idea: some magnetic materials heat up in a magnetic field and cool...

Heating and cooling are still built around a familiar idea. Compress gas, move heat, and accept the cost of electricity...

As industries and research communities look for cleaner ways to use energy more efficiently, low-grade waste heat remains an important but underused...

The race has moved beyond “can this work?”  A heat pump is a machine that moves heat from one place to another...

Why Heating and Cooling Need Better Options  Heating and cooling are becoming one of the biggest energy challenges of modern...

For over 100 years, refrigerators and air conditioners have relied on vapor compression, a process that uses chemical refrigerants to...

Magnetocaloric coolers depend on two things working well together: the material, and the heat exchange structure they are built into....