Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Room-temperature mechanocaloric effects in lithium-based superionic materials

  • Arun K. Sagotra,
  • Dewei Chu,
  • Claudio Cazorla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05835-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Large mechanocaloric effects are disclosed in lithium-ion superionic conductors at room temperature. These occur in the absence of any structural phase transition, which is beneficial from a practical point of view, and are related to stress-induced variations in the ionic conductivity.