Materials, physics and systems for multicaloric cooling

H Hou, S Qian, I Takeuchi - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Calls to minimize greenhouse gas emissions and demands for higher energy efficiency
continue to drive research into alternative cooling and refrigeration technologies. The caloric …

A revisit to atomistic rationale for slip in shape memory alloys

P Chowdhury, H Sehitoglu - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Performance degradation in shape memory alloys (SMA) arises due to a gradual loss of
strain recoverability attributable to slip mediated plasticity. The slip-induced changes in …

Recoverability of large strains and deformation twinning in martensite during tensile deformation of NiTi shape memory alloy polycrystals

Y Chen, O Molnárová, O Tyc, L Kadeřávek, L Heller… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Superelastic NiTi wires were deformed in tension up to gradually increasing total strains at
various temperatures, recoverable strains were evaluated and lattice defects left in the …

Beyond the strain recoverability of martensitic transformation in NiTi

L Heller, P Šittner, P Sedlák, H Seiner, O Tyc… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tensile deformation of a medical grade NiTi wire was investigated in a wide temperature
range from− 100° C to 450° C. Supplemental in-situ electrical resistance, synchrotron x-ray …

Tensile deformation of superelastic NiTi wires in wide temperature and microstructure ranges

Y Chen, O Tyc, O Molnárová, L Heller… - Shape Memory and …, 2019 - Springer
Superelastic NiTi wires were prepared from a single cold worked wire by various
electropulse heat treatments. The wires having a wide range of virgin microstructures were …

Superelasticity and functional fatigue of single crystalline FeNiCoAlTi iron-based shape memory alloy

W Abuzaid, H Sehitoglu - Materials & Design, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of Iron-based shape memory alloys is primarily motivated by the need for
a cost-effective alternative to NiTi. This work explores the superelastic and functional fatigue …

Effect of Hf/Zr ratio on shape memory properties of high temperature Ni50. 3Ti29. 7 (Hf, Zr) 20 alloys

GS Bigelow, O Benafan, A Garg, RD Noebe - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
A series of Ni 50.3 Ti 29.7 (Hf, Zr) 20 (Zr= 0 to 20 at%) high-temperature shape memory
alloys were investigated to determine the effect of varying Hf/Zr ratio on shape memory …

Additive manufacturing of Co-Ni-Ga high-temperature shape memory alloy: processability and phase transformation behavior

C Lauhoff, A Fischer, C Sobrero, A Liehr… - … Materials Transactions A, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Co-Ni-Ga high-temperature shape memory alloy is additively processed by
selective laser melting for the first time. Reversible martensitic transformation of the as-built …

H-Phase precipitation and martensitic transformation in Ni-rich Ni–Ti–Hf and Ni–Ti-Zr high-temperature shape memory alloys

A Evirgen, J Pons, I Karaman, R Santamarta… - Shape Memory and …, 2018 - Springer
The distributions of H-phase precipitates in Ni 50.3 Ti 29.7 Hf 20 and Ni 50.3 Ti 29.7 Zr 20
alloys formed by aging treatments at 500 and 550° C or slow furnace cooling and their …

[HTML][HTML] Whole martensitic transformation process in Fe–Mn–Si–Cr shape memory alloy by improved characterization of volume resistivity

Q Sun, B Cao, T Iwamoto - Journal of Materials Research and Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Since Fe–Mn–Si–Cr shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) has been discovered, an
improvement of the shape memory effect (SME) is challenged. Numerous attempts have …