The need for energy‐efficient and environmentally friendly refrigeration, heat pumping, air
conditioning, and thermal energy harvesting systems is currently more urgent than ever …

Magnetically responsive soft materials are soft composites where magnetic fillers are
embedded into soft polymeric matrices. These active materials have attracted extensive …

Purpose To design a low‐cost, portable permanent magnet‐based MRI system capable of
obtaining in vivo MR images within a reasonable scan time. Methods A discretized Halbach …

Modern clinical MRI systems utilise very high magnetic fields strengths to produce high
resolution images of the human body. The high up-front and maintenance cost of these …

The discovery of giant caloric effects and further investigation on device systems that can
compete with current heat management technologies in terms of efficiency have led to a …

Magnetic refrigeration (MR) using permanent magnets is being investigated for near-room
temperature applications. An MR prototype is described and results using gadolinium as …

Active magnetic regenerator (AMR) refrigerators represent an alternative to vapor
compression technology and have great potential in realizing cooling devices with high …

There is an obvious tendency towards increasing the information content of surveys of hard-
to-reach objects at high altitudes through the use of remote-controlled robot crawlers. This …

One of the key issues in magnetic refrigeration is generating the magnetic field that the
magnetocaloric material must be subjected to. The magnet constitutes a major part of the …

A novel rotary magnetic refrigerator was designed and built at the Federal University of
Santa Catarina (UFSC). The optimized magnetic circuit is a two-pole system in a rotor-stator …