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Heat capacity estimation of complex materials for energy technologies.

Elana J Cope, Joana Bustamante, Zöe M Johnson, Alicia Lancaster, Ramya Gurunathan, Janine George, Matthias T Agne

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Review in Joule, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Elana J CopeDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Joana BustamanteFederal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), 12205 Berlin, Germany.
Zöe M JohnsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Alicia LancasterDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.
Ramya GurunathanIndependent Contributor, Durham, NC, USA.
Janine GeorgeFederal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), 12205 Berlin, Germany.
Matthias T AgneDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heat capacity, which directly relates to free energy changes and thermal transport, is fundamental to modern engineering design. Even though current computational technology provides a detailed picture of atomic vibrations, the Debye and Dulong-Petit models are still widely utilized despite being prone to lower accuracy. Modern considerations of vibrational states, anharmonicity, electronic carriers, and phase transformations could improve estimates. Herein, the physics-based vibrational + dilation + electronic (VDE) model incorporates a user-provided phonon density of states, a phonon pressure-based dilation term, and an electronic component. Phonon density of states from analytical, machine-learned, and first-principles methods are compared, thus highlighting the advantages of machine-learned technology. Heat capacity estimates for 38 diverse materials are often within 5% of experimental values between 200 and 600 K. Detailed temperature-dependent investigations are carried out for several materials, including

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batteriesenergy materialsheat capacityphase transitionphononsthermal conductivitythermal propertiesthermoelectrics

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PMID40851656
PMCPMC12369388

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