Materials with giant mechanocaloric effects: cooling by strength

L Mañosa, A Planes - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The search for materials with large caloric effects has become a major challenge in material
science due to their potential in developing near room‐temperature solid‐state cooling …

Deformation physics of shape memory alloys–fundamentals at atomistic frontier

P Chowdhury, H Sehitoglu - Progress in Materials Science, 2017 - Elsevier
Application spectrum of shape memory alloys (SMA) is expanding rapidly and
proportionately so is the engineering demand for superior materials. An essential …

Giant solid-state barocaloric effect in the Ni–Mn–In magnetic shape-memory alloy

L Mañosa, D González-Alonso, A Planes, E Bonnot… - Nature materials, 2010 - nature.com
The search for materials showing large caloric effects close to room temperature has
become a challenge in modern materials physics and it is expected that such a class of …

Advanced materials for solid-state refrigeration

L Mañosa, A Planes, M Acet - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent progress on caloric effects are reviewed. The application of external stimuli such as
magnetic field, hydrostatic pressure, uniaxial stress and electric field give rise respectively to …

Large exchange bias after zero-field cooling from an unmagnetized state

BM Wang, Y Liu, P Ren, B Xia, KB Ruan, JB Yi, J Ding… - Physical review …, 2011 - APS
Exchange bias (EB) is usually observed in systems with an interface between different
magnetic phases after field cooling. Here we report an unusual phenomenon in which a …

Large Zero-Field Cooled Exchange-Bias in Bulk

AK Nayak, M Nicklas, S Chadov, C Shekhar… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We report a large exchange-bias effect after zero-field cooling the new tetragonal Heusler
compound Mn 2 PtGa from the paramagnetic state. The first-principles calculation and the …

Barocaloric and magnetocaloric effects in

E Stern-Taulats, A Planes, P Lloveras, M Barrio… - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report on calorimetry under applied hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field at the
antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic (AFM/FM) transition of Fe 49 Rh 51. Results demonstrate …

Magnetic properties and structural transformations in Ni–Co–Mn–Sn multifunctional alloys

DY Cong, S Roth, L Schultz - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
A systematic study of the magnetic properties and both the temperature-and magnetic-field-
induced structural transformations in the Ni50− xCoxMn39Sn11 (0⩽ x⩽ 10) multifunctional …

Giant barocaloric effect in all--metal Heusler shape memory alloys

A Aznar, A Gràcia-Condal, A Planes, P Lloveras… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We have studied the barocaloric properties associated with the martensitic transition of a
shape memory Heusler alloy Ni 50 Mn 31.5 Ti 18.5 which is composed of all-d-metal …

Role of Electronic Structure in the Martensitic Phase Transition of Studied <?format ?>by Hard-X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ab Initio …

M Ye, A Kimura, Y Miura, M Shirai, YT Cui, K Shimada… - Physical review …, 2010 - APS
We have revealed the underlying mechanism of the martensitic phase transition (MPT) in a
new class of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys, Ni 2 Mn 1+ x Sn 1-x, by the combination of …