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 …

Twenty one years ago, the discovery of the giant magnetocaloric effect (GMCE) at room
temperature completely revolutionized the magnetocaloric materials field demonstrating the …

Refrigeration is one of the main sinks of the German and European electricity consumption
and accordingly contributes to worldwide CO2 emissions. High reduction potentials are …

Room temperature magnetic refrigeration is an energy saving and environmentally‐friendly
technology, which has developed rapidly from a basic idea to prototype devices. The …

Magnetic shape memory materials require a high twin boundary mobility and low hysteresis
for applications mainly as actuators, sensors, and magnetocaloric cooling elements. Usually …

By introducing smart materials in micro systems technologies, novel smart microactuators
and sensors are currently being developed, eg, for mobile, wearable, and implantable …

This review focuses on the magnetocaloric effect with special attention to nanoscale thin
films and heterostructures. The authors outline the general phenomenon of the …

The characteristic size of the magnetocaloric materials in magnetic refrigerators,
thermomagnetic regenerators and energy harvesters is usually down to micrometer and …

Shape memory alloys often show a complex hierarchical morphology in the martensitic
state. To understand the formation of this twin-within-twins microstructure, we examine …

Small-sized materials with large surface to volume ratio favor heat transfer during magnetic
refrigeration cycling and thus may help enhancing the refrigeration efficiency. Here, high Fe …