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Critical parameters governing elastocaloric effect in polyisoprene rubbers for solid-state cooling

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The aim of this work is to study the critical parameters governing the eCe (elastocaloric effect) of poly-isoprene rubber (NR and IR) in use conditions of a cooling device, i.e. under partial cyclic loading. The effect of mechanical cyclic loading parameters (pre-extension ratio, waveform and frequency) on eCe was first studied. It shows that the eCe increases when the mimimum pre-extension ratio is increased and frequency is lowered from 1Hz to 0.001Hz, as it promotes strain-induced crystallization. However, it also leads to a decrease in potential cooling power, from 7 to 0.01 MW/m3 (i.e. 8 kW/kg to 0.01 kW/kg). At intermediate frequency (f≈0.1 Hz), the comparison of square and triangular waveforms demonstrated that the former enables greater temperature variation. This is due to its holding step (at maximum extension ratio), which maximizes crystallization but also promotes stress relaxation, resulting in increased mechanical losses. Consequently, the square and triangular loadings have a COPmat of 12 and 25, with a temperature variation of 4.2K and 3.6K, respectively. Regarding the formulation, rubbers that do not have a great tendency to crystallise such as synthetic polyisoprene rubber seem to have the best COPmat, while to maximise ΔT, the best of our formulations are NR crosslinked with sulphur and having a crosslink density close to 1.5×10-4 mol/cm3, which combine large strain induced crystallisation and entropic elasticity. This material has a COPmat of about 27 and allows a ΔT≈4K, i.e.performance comparable to that of the best Shape Memory Alloys (at equivalent COPmat).
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hal-04608853 , version 1 (11-06-2024)

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Hiba Haissoune, Gildas Coativy, Laurent Chazeau, Laurent Lebrun, Sebald Gael, et al.. Critical parameters governing elastocaloric effect in polyisoprene rubbers for solid-state cooling. Polymer, 2024, pp.127234. ⟨10.1016/j.polymer.2024.127234⟩. ⟨hal-04608853⟩
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