Giant room-temperature barocaloric effects in PDMS rubber at low pressures
arXiv:1703.09294 · doi:10.1016/j.eurpolymj.2017.12.007
Abstract
The barocaloric effect is still an incipient scientific topic, but it has been attracting an increasing attention in the last years due to the promising perspectives for its application in alternative cooling devices. Here, we present giant values of barocaloric entropy change and temperature change induced by low pressures in PDMS elastomer around room temperature. Adiabatic temperature changes of 12.0 K and 28.5 K were directly measured for pressure changes of 173 MPa and 390 MPa, respectively, associated with large normalized temperature changes (~70 K GPa-1). From adiabatic temperature change data, we obtained entropy change values larger than 140 J kg-1 K-1. We found barocaloric effect values that exceed those previously reported for any promising barocaloric materials from direct measurements of temperature change around room temperature. Our results stimulate the study of the barocaloric effect in elastomeric polymers and broaden the pathway to use this effect in solid-state cooling technologies.
24 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables. Corrected version. Corrected isothermal entropy change values and related results
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