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Elastocaloric cooling – world’s first refrigerator cools by flexing artificial muscles made of nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. This climate-friendly cooling and heating technology is far more energy-efficient than current methods.
There is room for just one small bottle in the world’s first refrigerator that is cooled with artificial muscles made of nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. But the mini-prototype that the team led by professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki will be presenting at the Hannover Messe is groundbreaking: it shows that elastocalorics is becoming a viable solution for practical applications. This climate-friendly cooling and heating technology is far more energy-efficient than current methods.
But the mini-prototype that the team led by professors Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki will be presenting at the Hannover Messe is groundbreaking: it shows that elastocalorics is becoming a viable solution for practical applications. The new technology, which is now integrated into a small, compact refrigerator prototype, is based on an incredibly simple principle: heat is removed from a space by stretching wires and releasing them again. Background The research team led by Stefan Seelecke and Paul Motzki uses shape memory technology for a wide range of applications, from innovative cooling and heating systems to robot grippers, valves and pumps.
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