HKUST Researchers Achieve Zero-Degradation Cooling Over One Million Cycles

By Prabhat Ranjan Mishra · Interesting Engineering · 2026-09-20

According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has built a solid-state cooling device that avoids the mechanical fatigue typical of elastocaloric systems. By utilizing a specific TiNiCuCo alloy, the proto

According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has built a solid-state cooling device that avoids the mechanical fatigue typical of elastocaloric systems. By utilizing a specific TiNiCuCo alloy, the proto