Magnetocaloric effect: From materials research to refrigeration devices

V Franco, JS Blázquez, JJ Ipus, JY Law… - Progress in Materials …, 2018 - Elsevier
The magnetocaloric effect and its most straightforward application, magnetic refrigeration,
are topics of current interest due to the potential improvement of energy efficiency of cooling …

Supply and demand of some critical metals and present status of their recycling in WEEE

S Zhang, Y Ding, B Liu, C Chang - Waste Management, 2017 - Elsevier
New development and technological innovations make electrical and electronic equipment
(EEE) more functional by using an increasing number of metals, particularly the critical …

Molecule-based magnetic coolers

YZ Zheng, GJ Zhou, Z Zheng… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been a rapid expansion in the use of molecular magnets for both low-and ultra
low-temperature cooling applications in recent years, and here we review the chemical …

Recent advances in the design of magnetic molecules for use as cryogenic magnetic coolants

JL Liu, YC Chen, FS Guo, ML Tong - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
This review outlines recent advances in the design of 3d-, 4f-, and 3d–4f type magnetic
molecules for use as excellent cryogenic magnetic coolants based on the magnetocaloric …

A 24-Gd nanocapsule with a large magnetocaloric effect

LX Chang, G Xiong, L Wang, P Cheng… - Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Two 24-nuclear lanthanide clusters, Gd24 and Dy24 were obtained and structurally
characterized. Magnetic investigations reveal that Gd24 exhibits the largest entropy change …

Magnetic relaxation in single-ion magnets formed by less-studied lanthanide ions Ce (III), Nd (III), Gd (III), Ho (III), Tm (II/III) and Yb (III)

A Borah, R Murugavel - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent growth in the area of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) in general, and single-ion
magnets (SIMs) in particular, is due to the potential applications of this class of compounds …

Study of a magnetic-cooling material Gd (OH) CO 3

YC Chen, L Qin, ZS Meng, DF Yang, C Wu… - Journal of Materials …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The magnetocaloric effect of a coordination polymeric material with a repeating unit of Gd
(OH) CO3 has been studied experimentally using isothermal magnetization and heat …

A brilliant cryogenic magnetic coolant: magnetic and magnetocaloric study of ferromagnetically coupled GdF 3

YC Chen, J Prokleška, WJ Xu, JL Liu, J Liu… - Journal of Materials …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of paramagnetic molecules as cryogenic coolants usually requires relatively large
fields to obtain a practical cooling effect. Thus, research into magnetic molecular materials …

A Cubic Tinkertoy-like Heterometallic Cluster with a Record Magnetocaloric Effect

N Xu, W Chen, YS Ding, Z Zheng - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Clusters showing a giant magnetocaloric effect (MCE) are of interest as molecular coolants
for magnetic refrigeration. Herein, we report two heterometallic clusters, denoted as Gd 152 …

Heterometallic CuII–LnIII complexes: Single molecule magnets and magnetic refrigerants

A Dey, P Bag, P Kalita, V Chandrasekhar - Coordination Chemistry …, 2021 - Elsevier
Molecular nanomagnets containing heterometallic 3d-4f complexes have been investigated
extensively for the past few years realizing the role of exchange interaction to minimize the …