Magnetic materials and devices for the 21st century: stronger, lighter, and more energy efficient

O Gutfleisch, MA Willard, E Brück, CH Chen… - Advanced …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
A new energy paradigm, consisting of greater reliance on renewable energy sources and
increased concern for energy efficiency in the total energy lifecycle, has accelerated …

The magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration near room temperature: materials and models

V Franco, JS Blázquez, B Ingale… - Annual Review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
In the past 20 years, there has been a surge in research on the magnetocaloric response of
materials, due mainly to the possibility of applying this effect for magnetic refrigeration close …

Giant magnetocaloric effect driven by structural transitions

J Liu, T Gottschall, KP Skokov, JD Moore… - Nature materials, 2012 - nature.com
Magnetic cooling could be a radically different energy solution substituting conventional
vapour compression refrigeration in the future. For the largest cooling effects of most …

Reversible and irreversible colossal barocaloric effects in plastic crystals

A Aznar, P Lloveras, M Barrio, P Negrier… - Journal of materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The extremely large latent heat exchanged in phase transitions involving strong molecular
orientational disordering has recently led to the proposal of plastic crystals as a feasible …

Manipulation of thermal hysteresis and magnetocaloric effect in the Ni-Co-Mn-In alloys through lattice contraction: effect of Ge substitution for In

J Yang, Z Li, X Zhang, B Yang, H Yan, D Cong, X Zhao… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
First-order magnetostructural transformation can be utilized to generate giant
magnetocaloric effect for the magnetic refrigeration applications, but the intrinsic hysteresis …

Large reversible magnetocaloric effect in Ni-Mn-In-Co

T Gottschall, KP Skokov, B Frincu… - Applied Physics …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the high irreversible adiabatic temperature change of− 8 K in a magnetic field
change of 1.95 T in the Heusler compound Ni 45.7 Mn 36.6 In 13.5 Co 4.2 showing a first …

Giant and reversible room-temperature magnetocaloric effect in Ti-doped Ni-Co-Mn-Sn magnetic shape memory alloys

YH Qu, DY Cong, XM Sun, ZH Nie, WY Gui, RG Li… - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
The practical applications of magnetocaloric materials for magnetic refrigeration require not
only large magnitude but also reversibility, as well as room-temperature operating …

Simultaneously achieved large reversible elastocaloric and magnetocaloric effects and their coupling in a magnetic shape memory alloy

YH Qu, DY Cong, SH Li, WY Gui, ZH Nie, MH Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Large reversible caloric effects covering a broad temperature region are essential for high-
efficiency and environment-friendly solid-state caloric refrigeration that can potentially …

Inverse barocaloric effect in the giant magnetocaloric La–Fe–Si–Co compound

L Mañosa, D Gonzalez-Alonso, A Planes… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Application of hydrostatic pressure under adiabatic conditions causes a change in
temperature in any substance. This effect is known as the barocaloric effect and the vast …

Contradictory role of the magnetic contribution in inverse magnetocaloric Heusler materials

T Gottschall, KP Skokov, D Benke, ME Gruner… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
In this paper, we illustrate the dilemma of inverse magnetocaloric materials using the
example of Heusler alloys. For such materials, the magnetic and lattice contribution to the …