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 …

Magnetocaloric materials for energy efficient cooling

J Lyubina - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Solid-state magnetic cooling near room temperature has recently gained a prominent
position among alternative cooling technologies that are deemed to have higher energy …

Mastering hysteresis in magnetocaloric materials

O Gutfleisch, T Gottschall, M Fries… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hysteresis is more than just an interesting oddity that occurs in materials with a first-order
transition. It is a real obstacle on the path from existing laboratory-scale prototypes of …

Materials challenges for high performance magnetocaloric refrigeration devices

A Smith, CRH Bahl, R Bjørk… - Advanced Energy …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetocaloric materials with a Curie temperature near room temperature have attracted
significant interest for some time due to their possible application for high‐efficiency …

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 …

Giant barocaloric effects over a wide temperature range in superionic conductor AgI

A Aznar, P Lloveras, M Romanini, M Barrio… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Current interest in barocaloric effects has been stimulated by the discovery that these
pressure-driven thermal changes can be giant near ferroic phase transitions in materials that …

Hysteresis design of magnetocaloric materials—from basic mechanisms to applications

F Scheibel, T Gottschall, A Taubel, M Fries… - Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic refrigeration relies on a substantial entropy change in a magnetocaloric material
when a magnetic field is applied. Such entropy changes are present at first‐order …

Sintering regimes and resulting microstructure and properties of binder jet 3D printed Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys

A Mostafaei, PR De Vecchis, EL Stevens, M Chmielus - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Binder jet 3D printing was used to produce magnetic shape memory alloy samples with
densities increasing from 45% to 99% with increasing sintering temperature from 1000° C to …

Giant reversible magnetocaloric effect in MnNiGe-based materials: minimizing thermal hysteresis via crystallographic compatibility modulation

J Liu, Y Gong, Y You, X You, B Huang, X Miao, G Xu… - Acta Materialia, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract MnMX (M= Co or Ni, X= Si or Ge) alloys with strong magnetostructural coupling
exhibit giant magnetic entropy change and are currently extensively studied. However, large …