Improved technologies are required to curb the substantial greenhouse gas emissions associated with heating and cooling. Researchers have now revisited endothermic cooling to design a sustainable, reversible sorption-driven dissolution refrigeration cycle, which holds broad potential for cooling, heating, and thermal storage applications.
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Kitanovski, A. Reversible solutions. Nat Energy (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-026-01966-2
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