Elastocaloric Cooling Named One of the Top-10 Emerging Technologies to Address Global Challenges

A climate-friendly and highly-efficient solid state cooling technology developed at the University of Maryland (UMD) has been named one of the top 10 breakthrough technologies of 2024 by the World Economic Forum. The technology is being developed by researchers at the A. James Clark School of Engineering’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering (CEEE) and Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE).