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 …

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 …

Iron and manganese based magnetocaloric materials for near room temperature thermal management

V Chaudhary, X Chen, RV Ramanujan - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Thermal management technology based on the magnetocaloric effect offers several
advantages over conventional gas compression cooling. The efficiency of magnetic cooling …

Magnetocaloric effect in “reduced” dimensions: Thin films, ribbons, and microwires of Heusler alloys and related compounds

VV Khovaylo, VV Rodionova… - … status solidi (b), 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Room temperature magnetic refrigeration is an energy saving and environmentally‐friendly
technology, which has developed rapidly from a basic idea to prototype devices. The …

Influence of Co and Ni addition on the magnetocaloric effect in Fe88− 2xCoxNixZr7B4Cu1 soft magnetic amorphous alloys

R Caballero-Flores, V Franco, A Conde… - Applied Physics …, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied the magnetocaloric effect in a series of Fe 88− 2 x Co x Ni x Zr 7 B 4 Cu 1
alloys. The partial substitution of Fe by Co and Ni leads to a monotonic increase in the Curie …

Tunable Curie temperatures in Gd alloyed Fe–B–Cr magnetocaloric materials

JY Law, RV Ramanujan, V Franco - Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 2010 - Elsevier
The magnetocaloric effect of Fe80− xB12Cr8Gdx (x= 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 10, 11) amorphous alloys
was studied. Gd addition increases the thermal stability of the alloy and allows tuning the …

Low-grade waste heat recovery using the reverse magnetocaloric effect

RA Kishore, S Priya - Sustainable Energy & Fuels, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
According to a recent study by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, about 59.1
quadrillion BTU of energy produced in the United States is rejected to the atmosphere …

Prediction and customized design of Curie temperature of Fe-based amorphous alloys based on interpretable machine learning

C Liu, Y Lu, J Feng, W Cai, H Su - Materials Today Communications, 2024 - Elsevier
Predicting the Curie temperature (T c) is a crucial problem in the field of amorphous alloys.
In this study, Fe-based amorphous alloys are taken as an example, and the composition and …

Prediction of magnetocaloric properties of Fe-based amorphous alloys based on interpretable machine learning

C Liu, X Wang, W Cai, H Su - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2024 - Elsevier
This study developed a machine learning model to accurately predict the isothermal
magnetic entropy change (-SM) in amorphous alloys, a key parameter for evaluating …

Magnetic refrigerants with continuous phase transitions: Amorphous and nanostructured materials

V Franco, A Conde - Scripta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
An overview of the magnetocaloric properties of amorphous and nanostructured materials
which undergo second-order phase transitions is presented, paying special attention to …