Nanoscale Phase Separation and Large Refrigerant Capacity in Magnetocaloric Material LaFe11.5Si1.5
Abstract
Here, ferromagnetic transitions, the magnetocaloric effect, and the atomic-scale microstructure in an annealed bulk material of LaFe11.5Si1.5 were investigated using magnetic measurements, Mössbauer spectroscopy, high-resolution X-ray diffraction analysis, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The results provide evidence of the coexistence of two ferromagnetic phases with different Curie temperatures. The phase with a Curie temperature of 216 K corresponds to a Si-rich phase of a NaZn13-type structure with a small lattice volume, whereas the phase with a Curie temperature of 185 K corresponds to a Si-poor phase of a NaZn13-type structure with a large lattice volume. This phase coexistence is observed on a nanometer scale and it can account for inverse thermal hysteresis of the ferromagnetic transition in the Si-rich phase during warming. Furthermore, the phase coexistence helps the bulk material achieve a refrigeration capacity of 170 J kg-1 due to a combination of the magnetocaloric effect in each phase. It is determined that the magnetocaloric effect in the Si-rich and the Si-poor phase brings about a maximum of the total entropy change of -3.55 and -6.80 and J kg-1 K-1 at respective Curie temperatures, respectively. Fundamentally, the phase coexistence indicates coloring of Si atoms in the lattice of a NaZn13-typemore »
- Authors:
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- Northeastern Univ., (China)
- Xi'an Jiaotong Univ., (China)
- Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Northeastern Univ., Shenyang (China)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) (China); China Scholarship Council
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1870429
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-06CH11357; 51831003; 50671024; 2012CB619405
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chemistry of Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 33; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0897-4756
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; grain; lattices, magnetic properties; phase separation; phase transitions
Citation Formats
Huang, Dan, Ma, Tianyu, Brown, Dennis E., Lapidus, Saul H., Ren, Yang, and Gao, Jianrong. Nanoscale Phase Separation and Large Refrigerant Capacity in Magnetocaloric Material LaFe11.5Si1.5. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04913.
Huang, Dan, Ma, Tianyu, Brown, Dennis E., Lapidus, Saul H., Ren, Yang, & Gao, Jianrong. Nanoscale Phase Separation and Large Refrigerant Capacity in Magnetocaloric Material LaFe11.5Si1.5. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04913
Huang, Dan, Ma, Tianyu, Brown, Dennis E., Lapidus, Saul H., Ren, Yang, and Gao, Jianrong. Mon .
"Nanoscale Phase Separation and Large Refrigerant Capacity in Magnetocaloric Material LaFe11.5Si1.5". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04913. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1870429.
@article{osti_1870429,
title = {Nanoscale Phase Separation and Large Refrigerant Capacity in Magnetocaloric Material LaFe11.5Si1.5},
author = {Huang, Dan and Ma, Tianyu and Brown, Dennis E. and Lapidus, Saul H. and Ren, Yang and Gao, Jianrong},
abstractNote = {Here, ferromagnetic transitions, the magnetocaloric effect, and the atomic-scale microstructure in an annealed bulk material of LaFe11.5Si1.5 were investigated using magnetic measurements, Mössbauer spectroscopy, high-resolution X-ray diffraction analysis, and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The results provide evidence of the coexistence of two ferromagnetic phases with different Curie temperatures. The phase with a Curie temperature of 216 K corresponds to a Si-rich phase of a NaZn13-type structure with a small lattice volume, whereas the phase with a Curie temperature of 185 K corresponds to a Si-poor phase of a NaZn13-type structure with a large lattice volume. This phase coexistence is observed on a nanometer scale and it can account for inverse thermal hysteresis of the ferromagnetic transition in the Si-rich phase during warming. Furthermore, the phase coexistence helps the bulk material achieve a refrigeration capacity of 170 J kg-1 due to a combination of the magnetocaloric effect in each phase. It is determined that the magnetocaloric effect in the Si-rich and the Si-poor phase brings about a maximum of the total entropy change of -3.55 and -6.80 and J kg-1 K-1 at respective Curie temperatures, respectively. Fundamentally, the phase coexistence indicates coloring of Si atoms in the lattice of a NaZn13-type structure and can be attributed to nanoscale phase separation of a disordered precursor during annealing of the bulk material. The nanoscale phase separation may occur in other magnetocaloric materials, thus allowing for improvement of their refrigeration capacity.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04913},
journal = {Chemistry of Materials},
number = 8,
volume = 33,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Mon Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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