Materials with giant mechanocaloric effects: cooling by strength

L Mañosa, A Planes - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The search for materials with large caloric effects has become a major challenge in material
science due to their potential in developing near room‐temperature solid‐state cooling …

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 …

Tailoring magnetocaloric effect in all-d-metal Ni-Co-Mn-Ti Heusler alloys: a combined experimental and theoretical study

A Taubel, B Beckmann, L Pfeuffer, N Fortunato… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Novel Ni-Co-Mn-Ti all-d-metal Heusler alloys are exciting due to large multicaloric
effects combined with enhanced mechanical properties. An optimized heat treatment for a …

Crystallography of stress-induced martensitic transformation and giant elastocaloric effect in a< 001> A textured Ni27Cu21Mn46Sn6 shape memory alloy

J Yang, H Wang, Z Li, N Zou, H Yan, B Yang, L Zuo - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Shape memory alloys exploit the latent heat yielded by stress-induced martensitic
transformation to achieve elastocaloric effect, being suited for solid-state cooling technology …

All-d-Metal Full Heusler Alloys: A Novel Class of Functional Materials

VG de Paula, MS Reis - Chemistry of Materials, 2021 - ACS Publications
Full Heusler alloys display a wide range of physical phenomena with potential applications
in different areas. However, researchers still struggle to overcome many limiting factors to …

Giant barocaloric effect in all--metal Heusler shape memory alloys

A Aznar, A Gràcia-Condal, A Planes, P Lloveras… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We have studied the barocaloric properties associated with the martensitic transition of a
shape memory Heusler alloy Ni 50 Mn 31.5 Ti 18.5 which is composed of all-d-metal …

Achieving a broad refrigeration temperature region through the combination of successive caloric effects in a multiferroic Ni50Mn35In15 alloy

Z Li, Z Li, D Li, J Yang, B Yang, Y Hu, D Wang, Y Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Solid-state refrigeration based on the caloric effects has been conceived to be a high-
efficient and environmental-friendly alternative to replace the vapor-compression …

Contradictory role of the magnetic contribution in inverse magnetocaloric Heusler materials

T Gottschall, KP Skokov, D Benke, ME Gruner… - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
In this paper, we illustrate the dilemma of inverse magnetocaloric materials using the
example of Heusler alloys. For such materials, the magnetic and lattice contribution to the …

Microstructure engineering of metamagnetic Ni-Mn-based Heusler compounds by Fe-doping: A roadmap towards excellent cyclic stability combined with large …

L Pfeuffer, J Lemke, N Shayanfar, S Riegg, D Koch… - Acta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Ni-Mn-based metamagnetic shape-memory alloys exhibit a giant thermal response to
magnetic fields and uniaxial stress which can be utilized in single caloric or multicaloric …

Imparting high elastocaloric cooling potential to NiTi alloy by two-step enhancements

J Chen, C Zhao, S Zhang, W Zhang, W Liu, L Lei… - Materials Science and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The large adiabatic temperature change during the stress-induced phase transformation in
the superelastic NiTi alloy makes it a leading candidate material for solid-state elastocaloric …