To curb greenhouse gas emissions from conventional vapour compression cooling technologies, it is necessary to develop refrigerants with low global warming potential and solid-state caloric cooling devices, argues Ichiro Takeuchi.
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I.T. is a founder of Maryland Energy & Sensor Technologies, a company developing elastocaloric cooling technologies. He is a faculty member of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (https://erc.earth.ku.edu), a collaborative multi-institution effort dedicated to tackling refrigerant challenges.
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Takeuchi, I. Sustainable cooling will require novel refrigerants and technologies. Nat Energy 11, 24–25 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-025-01951-1
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