Ionic Fridges Will Eliminate Bad Fridge Chemicals
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6HFE6)
In 2022, Drew Lilley and Ravi Prasher, both at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, used an alternative ionocaloric refrigeration' scheme. Instead of applying a field externally, they used the electrochemical binding between the ions in a salt (in this case sodium iodide) and a solvent (ethylene carbonate). When the salt is added to ...