Multifunctional high-entropy materials

L Han, S Zhu, Z Rao, C Scheu, D Ponge… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Entropy-related phase stabilization can allow compositionally complex solid solutions of
multiple principal elements. The massive mixing approach was originally introduced for …

Advanced Magnetocaloric Materials for Energy Conversion: Recent Progress, Opportunities, and Perspective

F Zhang, X Miao, N van Dijk, E Brück… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Solid‐state caloric effects as intrinsic thermal responses to different physical external stimuli
(magnetic‐, uniaxial stress‐, pressure‐, and electric‐fields) can achieve a higher energy …

Multicaloric Cryocooling Using Heavy Rare-Earth Free La(Fe,Si)13-Based Compounds

B Beckmann, L Pfeuffer, J Lill, B Eggert… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The transition toward a carbon-neutral society based on renewable energies goes hand in
hand with the availability of energy-efficient technologies. Magnetocaloric cooling is a very …

Residual ferromagnetic regions affecting the first-order phase transition in off-stoichiometric Fe–Rh

A Aubert, K Skokov, A Rogalev… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Among the magnetocaloric materials featuring first-order phase transitions (FOPT), FeRh is
considered as a reference system to study the FOPT because it is a “simple” binary system …

Giant magnetocaloric effect in a rare-earth-free layered coordination polymer at liquid hydrogen temperatures

JJB Levinsky, B Beckmann, T Gottschall… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Magnetic refrigeration, which utilizes the magnetocaloric effect, can provide a viable
alternative to the ubiquitous vapor compression or Joule-Thompson expansion methods of …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of fast-solidification on all-d-metal NiCoMnTi based giant magnetocaloric Heusler compounds

F Zhang, Z Wu, J Wang, W Chen, Z Wu, X Chi, C Zhao… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Recently, the all-d-metal Ni (Co) MnTi based Heusler compounds are found to have a giant
magnetocaloric effect (GMCE) near room temperature and manifest different functionalities …

Sustainable high-entropy materials?

L Han, W Mu, S Wei, PK Liaw, D Raabe - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
High-entropy materials (HEMs) show inspiring structural and functional properties due to
their multi-elemental compositions. However, most HEMs are burdened by cost-, energy …

[HTML][HTML] Giant magnetocaloric effect of Ni-Co-Mn-Ti all-d Heusler alloys in high magnetic fields

B Beckmann, A Taubel, T Gottschall, L Pfeuffer, D Koch… - Acta Materialia, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract Ni-Co-Mn-Ti all-d Heusler alloys are attracting considerable attention for solid-state
caloric cooling applications due to their promising combination of excellent caloric and …

On the high-field characterization of magnetocaloric materials using pulsed magnetic fields

CS Mejía, T Niehoff, M Straßheim, E Bykov… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic refrigeration is a highly active field of research. The recent studies in materials and
methods for hydrogen liquefaction and innovative techniques based on multicaloric …

[HTML][HTML] Structural dynamics of first-order phase transition in giant magnetocaloric La (Fe, Si) 13: The free energy landscape

AA Beleza, B Pires, R Almeida, JSO Evans… - Materials Today …, 2024 - Elsevier
Maximizing the performance of magnetic refrigerators and thermomagnetic energy
harvesters is imperative for their successful implementation and can be done by maximizing …