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Xavier Moya, de la Universidad de Cambridge (UK): «Barocaloric materials for heating and cooling»
Sala de Grados, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus San Francisco
Xavier Moya, de la Universidad de Cambridge (UK): «Barocaloric materials for heating and cooling»
Miérc. 30 abril 2025, 12:00
Sala de Grados, Facultad de Ciencias, Campus San Francisco
Summary: Half of the world’s CO2 emissions can be attributed to heating and cooling. This is primarily due to heating with natural gas and cooling with compression of greenhouse gases, which are neither environmentally friendly nor energy efficient. Therefore there is great interest in developing alternative technologies that can replace these gas-based environmentally damaging systems. Barocaloric materials are at the core of novel solid-state heat-pump technologies. During this talk I will describe our work on mechanically responsive barocaloric materials, and present our recent advances on barocaloric systems for heating and cooling applications.
Xavier Moya is a Professor of Materials Physics in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy. He completed a BA in 2003, and a PhD on magnetic shape memory alloys in 2008, at the Physics Department in the University of Barcelona. He works on the thermal properties of materials, focusing on phase transitions involving structural, electrical and magnetic degrees of freedom. Possible applications include environmentally friendly cooling and heating, and to this end he launched the start-up Barocal Ltd in 2019.
Xavier was awarded the Ramon Margalef Prize in 2009, the Spanish Royal Society of Physics Young Researcher in Experimental Physics Prize in 2015, and the Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK Emerging Talent Award in 2017. He is a Fellow of Magdalene College, a member of the UK Young Academy, and a Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Fellow.
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