{"id":85360,"date":"2019-10-13T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-13T12:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10908"},"modified":"2019-10-13T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-13T12:44:49","slug":"explained-what-is-elastocaloric-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-elastocaloric-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is elastocaloric effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>According to researchers, the elastocaloric effect, if harnessed may be able to do away with the need of fluid refrigerants used in fridges and air-conditioners.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The fluids used in fridges and air-conditioners are susceptible to leakages and can contribute to global warming.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Elastocaloric effect:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When rubber bands are twisted and untwisted, it produces a cooling effect.This is called the elastocaloric effect.<\/li><li>In the elastocaloric effect, the transfer of heat works much the same way as when fluid refrigerants are compressed and expanded.&nbsp;<\/li><li>When a rubber band is stretched,it absorbs heat from its environment, and when it is released,it gradually cools down.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How will elastocaloric effect help?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In order to figure out how the twisting mechanism might be able to enable a fridge,the researchers compared the cooling power of rubber fibres, nylon and polyethylene fishing lines and nickel-titanium wires.<\/li><li>They observed high cooling from twist changes in twisted, coiled and supercoiled fibres.<\/li><li>They reported that the level of efficiency of the heat exchange in rubber bands is comparable to that of standard refrigerants.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:According to researchers, the elastocaloric effect, if harnessed may be able to do away with the need of fluid refrigerants used in fridges and air-conditioners. Facts: The fluids used in fridges and air-conditioners are susceptible to leakages and can contribute to global warming. About Elastocaloric effect: When rubber bands are twisted and untwisted, it produces&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-elastocaloric-effect\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is elastocaloric effect?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2693],"class_list":["post-85360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-elastocalorific-effect","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702645115},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}