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ArticleNature communications2025

From negligible to giant electrocaloric effect of poly(vinylidene fluoride).

Yibo Zhang, Zhiwei Ye, Fukun Niu, Chuanxi Xiong, Wei Wang, Yuheng Fu, Shixian Zhang, Shan Wang, Quanling Yang, Hongmei Qin and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 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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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors.

Yibo Zhang *State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2442-0555
Zhiwei Ye *State Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Fukun NiuState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Chuanxi XiongState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. cxiong@whut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0878-0884
Wei WangState Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Yuheng FuState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Shixian ZhangState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. spz5302@psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2410-4560
Shan WangState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Quanling YangState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China. yangql@whut.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7013-419X
Hongmei QinState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Shuang LiuState Key Laboratory of Silicate Materials for Architectures, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
Qing WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. wang@matse.psu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5968-3235

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 51673154National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 52273254
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF), the most widely used ferroelectric polymer, typically exhibits a negligible electrocaloric effect (ECE) due to its symmetrical molecular configuration and bulky ferroelectric domains. PVDF-based ferroelectric terpolymers with giant ECE are expensive and have a narrow temperature window (T

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PMID41407827
PMCPMC12712024

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