Polymer-based electrocaloric cooling devices

Zhang, Qiming; Lu, Sheng-Guo; Li, Xinyu; Gorny, Lee; Cheng, Jiping; Neese, Bret P; Chu, Baojin

Polymer-based electrocaloric cooling devices

Patent · Tue Oct 28 04:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI ID:1162129

Zhang, Qiming; Lu, Sheng-Guo; Li, Xinyu; Gorny, Lee; Cheng, Jiping; Neese, Bret P; Chu, Baojin

Cooling devices (i.e., refrigerators or heat pumps) based on polymers which exhibit a temperature change upon application or removal of an electrical field or voltage, (e.g., fluoropolymers or crosslinked fluoropolymers that exhibit electrocaloric effect).

Research Organization:: The Penn State Research Foundation, University Park, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-07ER46410

Assignee:: The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, PA)

Patent Number(s):: 8,869,542

Application Number:: 12/844,335

OSTI ID:: 1162129

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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