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 …

Negative thermal expansion (NTE), referring to the lattice contraction upon heating, has
been an attractive topic of solid-state chemistry and functional materials. The response of a …

The ideal magnetocaloric material would lay at the borderline of a first-order and a second-
order phase transition. Hence, it is crucial to unambiguously determine the order of phase …

The magnetic refrigeration (MR) utilizing magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has been recognized
as an environmentally friendly and energy efficiency technology. Here we presented the …

The magnetocaloric effect is the heating or cooling of magnetic materials when subjected to
magnetic field variation. It is characterized by the temperature change (ΔTad) in an adiabatic …

A universal curve for the change in the magnetic entropy has been recently proposed for
materials with second-order phase transitions. In this work we have studied the universal …

The field dependence of the magnetic entropy change can be used to detect the existence of
a minority magnetic phase without experimentally reaching its Curie temperature. In this …

The magnetocaloric effect is the thermal response of a material to an external magnetic field.
This manuscript focuses on the physics and the properties of materials which are commonly …

The determination of the nature of phase transitions, especially those that involve two
symmetry-breaking order parameters, is a fundamental issue in condensed matter physics …

A universal curve for the magnetic entropy change has been found to exist for a variety of
materials with second order phase transitions. We have studied whether this universal …