{"id":214834,"date":"2025-05-27T01:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/novel-elastic-alloy-achieves-20x-temperature-change-and-90-carnot-efficiency-in-solid-state-heat-pumping"},"modified":"2025-05-31T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T03:15:41","slug":"novel-elastic-alloy-achieves-20x-temperature-change-and-90-carnot-efficiency-in-solid-state-heat-pumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/novel-elastic-alloy-achieves-20x-temperature-change-and-90-carnot-efficiency-in-solid-state-heat-pumping","title":{"rendered":"Novel elastic alloy achieves 20x temperature change and 90% Carnot efficiency in solid-state heat pumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-elastic-alloy-achieves-20x-temperature-change-and-90-carnot-efficiency-in-solid-state-heat-pumping3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel elastic alloy called Ti78Nb22, which achieves remarkable efficiency for solid-state heat pumping and exhibits a reversible temperature change (\u0394T) ability that is 20 times greater than that of conventional metals when stretched or compressed, offering a promising green alternative to traditional vapor-compression heating and cooling technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have developed a novel elastic alloy called Ti78Nb22, which achieves remarkable efficiency for solid-state heat pumping and exhibits a reversible temperature change (\u0394T) ability that is 20 times greater than that of conventional metals when stretched or compressed, offering [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215160,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214834\/revisions\/215160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}