| Title: | Caloric effects in liquid crystal-based soft materials |
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| Authors: | ID Črešnar, Dejvid (Author)
ID Derets, Nikita (Author)
ID Trček, Maja (Author)
ID Skačej, Gregor (Author)
ID Rešetič, Andraž (Author)
ID Lavrič, Marta (Author)
ID Domenici, Valentina (Author)
ID Zalar, Boštjan (Author)
ID Kralj, Samo (Author)
ID Kutnjak, Zdravko (Author)
ID Rožič, Brigita (Author) |
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| Files: |  Cresnar-2023-Caloric_effects_in_liquid_crystal.pdf (1,78 MB)
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 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7655/acf0ea
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | FNM - Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
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| Abstract: | With the increased environmental awareness, the search for environmentally friendlier heat-management techniques has been the topic of many scientific studies. The caloric materials with large caloric effects, such as the electrocaloric (EC) and elastocaloric (eC) effects, have increased interest due to their potential to realize new solid-state refrigeration devices. Recently, caloric properties of soft materials, such as liquid crystals (LCs) and LC elastomers (LCEs), are getting more in the focus of caloric materials investigations, stimulated by large caloric effects observed in these materials. Here, an overview of recent direct measurements of large caloric effects in smectic LC 14CB and main-chain LCEs is given. Specifically, high-resolution thermometric measurements revealed a large EC response in 14CB LC exceeding 8 K. Such a large effect was obtained at a relatively moderate electric field of 30 kV cm−1 compared to solid EC materials. We demonstrate that such a small field can induce the isotropic to smectic A phase transition in 14CB, releasing or absorbing relatively large latent heat that enhances the EC response. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that in main-chain LCEs, the character of the nematic to isotropic transition can be tuned from the supercritical towards the first-order regime by decreasing the crosslinkers' density. Such tuning results in a sharper phase transition and latent heat that enhance the eC response, exceeding 2 K and with the eC responsivity of 24 K MPa−1, about three orders of magnitude larger than the average eC responsivity found in the best shape memory alloys. Significant caloric effects in soft LC-based materials, observed at much smaller fields than in solid caloric materials, demonstrate their ability to play an important role as new cooling elements, thermal diodes, and caloric-active regeneration material in new heat-management devices. |
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| Keywords: | liquid crystal, lyquid crystal elastomers, electrocaloric, elastocaloric |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Submitted for review: | 08.06.2023 |
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| Article acceptance date: | 16.08.2023 |
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| Publication date: | 25.08.2023 |
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| Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | Str. 1-12 |
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| Numbering: | Letn. 5, Št. 4, št. članka 045004 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-87577  |
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| UDC: | 53 |
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| ISSN on article: | 2515-7655 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 162312707 |
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| DOI: | 10.1088/2515-7655/acf0ea |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 21.03.2024 |
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| Views: | 439 |
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| Downloads: | 54 |
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| Categories: | Misc.
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