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Title: Colossal Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti Alloys

Abstract

Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary elastocaloric properties. Hitherto the largest elastocaloric effect is obtained in small-size films and wires of the prototype NiTi system. Here, we report a colossal elastocaloric effect, well exceeding that of NiTi alloys, in a class of bulk polycrystalline NiMn-based materials designed with the criterion of simultaneously having large volume change across phase transition and good mechanical properties. The reversible adiabatic temperature change reaches a strikingly high value of 31.5 K and the isothermal entropy change is as large as 45 J kg–1 K–1. The achievement of such a colossal elastocaloric effect in bulk polycrystalline materials should push a significant step forward towards large-scale elastocaloric refrigeration applications. As a result, our design strategy may inspire the discovery of giant caloric effects in a broad range of ferroelastic materials.

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [2];  [3];  [2];  [1];  [4];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (China). Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials
  2. Univ. de Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Dept. de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Facultat de Física
  3. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). X-ray Science Div.
  4. Beijing Inst. of Technology, Beijing (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
OSTI Identifier:
1576940
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1546315
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 122; Journal Issue: 25; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE

Citation Formats

Cong, Daoyong, Xiong, Wenxin, Planes, Antoni, Ren, Yang, Mañosa, Lluís, Cao, Peiyu, Nie, Zhihua, Sun, Xiaoming, Yang, Zhi, Hong, Xiufeng, and Wang, Yandong. Colossal Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti Alloys. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.255703.
Cong, Daoyong, Xiong, Wenxin, Planes, Antoni, Ren, Yang, Mañosa, Lluís, Cao, Peiyu, Nie, Zhihua, Sun, Xiaoming, Yang, Zhi, Hong, Xiufeng, & Wang, Yandong. Colossal Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti Alloys. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.255703
Cong, Daoyong, Xiong, Wenxin, Planes, Antoni, Ren, Yang, Mañosa, Lluís, Cao, Peiyu, Nie, Zhihua, Sun, Xiaoming, Yang, Zhi, Hong, Xiufeng, and Wang, Yandong. Wed . "Colossal Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti Alloys". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.255703. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1576940.
@article{osti_1576940,
title = {Colossal Elastocaloric Effect in Ferroelastic Ni-Mn-Ti Alloys},
author = {Cong, Daoyong and Xiong, Wenxin and Planes, Antoni and Ren, Yang and Mañosa, Lluís and Cao, Peiyu and Nie, Zhihua and Sun, Xiaoming and Yang, Zhi and Hong, Xiufeng and Wang, Yandong},
abstractNote = {Energy-efficient and environment-friendly elastocaloric refrigeration, which is a promising replacement of the conventional vapor-compression refrigeration, requires extraordinary elastocaloric properties. Hitherto the largest elastocaloric effect is obtained in small-size films and wires of the prototype NiTi system. Here, we report a colossal elastocaloric effect, well exceeding that of NiTi alloys, in a class of bulk polycrystalline NiMn-based materials designed with the criterion of simultaneously having large volume change across phase transition and good mechanical properties. The reversible adiabatic temperature change reaches a strikingly high value of 31.5 K and the isothermal entropy change is as large as 45 J kg–1 K–1. The achievement of such a colossal elastocaloric effect in bulk polycrystalline materials should push a significant step forward towards large-scale elastocaloric refrigeration applications. As a result, our design strategy may inspire the discovery of giant caloric effects in a broad range of ferroelastic materials.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.255703},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 25,
volume = 122,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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FIG. 1 FIG. 1: Guide for the design of high-performance elastocaloric materials. (a) Correlation between transformation entropy change $ΔS_{tr}$ and unit cell volume change $ΔV/V_0$ across the transformation in NiMn-based Heusler alloys. The data are taken from the present work and literature. For “This work”, the upper symbol is for (Ni50Mn31.5Ti18.5)99.8B0.2 andmore » the lower one for (Ni50Mn32Ti18)99.8B0.2. All the data presented in this figure are taken from the alloys in which the martensitic transformation occurs above the Curie transition of austenite, namely the magnetic contribution to $ΔS_{tr}$ is negligible. (b) Ratio of bulk modulus B to shear modulus $G, B/G$ and the Cauchy pressure $C_{12}-C_{44}$, obtained from ab initio calculations, plotted as a function of $ΔV/V_0$ for NiMn-based Heusler alloys.« less

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