The rapid development of additive manufacturing and advances in shape memory materials
have fueled the progress of four-dimensional (4D) printing. With the right external stimulus …

Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is one of the most important techniques for
microstructure determination, being utilized in a wide range of scientific disciplines, such as …

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 …

After being severely and quasi-plastically distorted, shape memory materials (SMMs) are
able to recover their original shape at the presence of the right stimulus. In recent years we …

The giant magnetocaloric effect, in which large thermal changes are induced in a material
on the application of a magnetic field, can be used for refrigeration applications, such as the …

The magnetostructural coupling between the structural and the magnetic transition has a
crucial role in magnetoresponsive effects in a martensitic-transition system. A combination of …

Abstract The off‐stoichiometric Ni2MnGa Heusler alloy is a magnetic shape‐memory alloy
capable of reversible magnetic‐field‐induced strains (MFIS). These are generated by twin …

Following their discovery in the early 1960s, there has been a continuous quest for ways to
take advantage of the extraordinary properties of shape memory alloys (SMAs). These …

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 …

A systematic study of the magnetic properties and both the temperature-and magnetic-field-
induced structural transformations in the Ni50− xCoxMn39Sn11 (0⩽ x⩽ 10) multifunctional …