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

We have studied the barocaloric properties associated with the martensitic transition of a shape memory Heulser alloy Ni50Mn31.5Ti18.5 which is composed of all-d-metal elements. The composition of the sample has been tailored to avoid long range ferromagnetic order in both ausenite and martensite. T...

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Autores: Aznar Luque, Araceli|||0000-0002-1499-0004, Gracia Condal, Adrià, Planes Vila, Antoni, Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel|||0000-0003-4133-2223, Barrio Casado, María del|||0000-0003-3467-7581, Tamarit Mur, José Luis|||0000-0002-7965-0000, Xiong, Wenxin, Cong, Daoyong, Popescu, C., Mañosa Carrera, Lluis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/176503
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/176503
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.044406
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Materials -- Propietats tèrmiques
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria dels materials
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Sumario:We have studied the barocaloric properties associated with the martensitic transition of a shape memory Heulser alloy Ni50Mn31.5Ti18.5 which is composed of all-d-metal elements. The composition of the sample has been tailored to avoid long range ferromagnetic order in both ausenite and martensite. The lack of ferromagnetism results in a weak magnetic contribution to the total entropy change thereby leading to a large transition entropy change. The combination of such a large entropy change and a relatively large volume change at the martensitic transition gives rise to giant barocaloric properties in this alloy. When compared to other shape memory Heusler alloys, our material exhibits values for adiabatic temperature and isothermal entropy changes significantly larger than values reported so far for this class of materials. Furthermore, our Ni50Mn31.5Ti18.5 also compares favourably to the best state-of-the-art magnetic barocaloric materials.