{"id":232262,"date":"2026-02-28T02:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/cooling-without-gases-molecular-design-brings-solid-state-cooling-closer-to-reality"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T08:15:19","slug":"cooling-without-gases-molecular-design-brings-solid-state-cooling-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/cooling-without-gases-molecular-design-brings-solid-state-cooling-closer-to-reality","title":{"rendered":"Cooling without gases: Molecular design brings solid-state cooling closer to reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cooling-without-gases-molecular-design-brings-solid-state-cooling-closer-to-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating technologies that do not rely on climate-damaging refrigerant gases. In practice, however, a major obstacle remains: many materials behave differently during heating and cooling, which makes their response difficult to use reliably in real devices. In a study published in the journal <i>Communications Materials<\/i>, researchers investigate a solid material known for its exceptionally large cooling\/heating response (thermal response) under pressure and ask a simple question: can this response be made more reliable? They show that a very small change in composition leads to a clear improvement and use neutron experiments to explain why this improvement occurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some solid materials can cool down or heat up when pressure is applied or released. This behavior enables cooling and heating technologies that do not rely on climate-damaging refrigerant gases. In practice, however, a major obstacle remains: many materials behave differently during heating and cooling, which makes their response difficult to use reliably in real [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232262","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=232262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}