Low-field-actuated giant magnetocaloric effect and excellent mechanical properties in a NiMn-based multiferroic alloy

Cong, D. Y.; Huang, L.; Hardy, V.; Bourgault, D.; Sun, X. M.; Nie, Z. H.; Wang, M. G.; Ren, Y.; Entel, P.; Wang, Y. D.

doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2017.12.047

Title: Low-field-actuated giant magnetocaloric effect and excellent mechanical properties in a NiMn-based multiferroic alloy

Journal Article · Tue Jan 09 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Acta Materialia

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2017.12.047· OSTI ID:1466371

Cong, D. Y. ^[1]; Huang, L. ^[1]; Hardy, V. ^[2]; Bourgault, D. ^[3]; Sun, X. M. ^[1]; Nie, Z. H. ^[4]; Wang, M. G. ^[5]; Ren, Y. ^[6]; Entel, P. ^[7]; Wang, Y. D. ^[1]

Univ. of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (People's Republic of China)
Normandie Univ., Caen (France)
Institut Neel, Grenoble Cedex (France)
Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing (People's Republic of China)
Northeastern Univ., Shenyang (People's Republic of China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg (Germany)

Multiferroic magnetic shape memory alloys with first-order magntostructural transformation exhibit much enhanced magnetocaloric effect which incorporates the latent heat associated with the phase transformation itself, but they suffer from the drawbacks of large hysteresis and transformation interval and consequently too high critical field to actuate the magnetocaloric effect, greatly impeding their applications. Here, by generating a kind of specific stacking-mediated structure of martensite through minor Al substitution to improve the geometric compatibility between martensite and austenite in the Ni₄₀Co₁₀Mn₄₀Sn₉Al₁ alloy, we greatly reduced the thermal hysteresis and transformation temperature interval while conserving the large magnetization difference between the two phases. Consequently, a low-field-actuated giant magnetocaloric effect with isothermal entropy change of 23 J kg^–1 K^–1 for a field change from 0 to 2 T, which is among the highest values reported heretofore for all magnetocaloric materials, was successfully achieved. Meanwhile, with minor Al substitution, the present single-phase multiferroic alloy that is intermetallic in nature exhibits superior mechanical properties, including excellent compressive properties over a wide temperature range and a relatively high fracture toughness, which are quite beneficial for practical applications. Lastly, by incorporating the advantages of low cost, environment friendliness and easy fabrication, this alloy shows great potential for magnetocaloric applications.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities; Agence Nationale de la recherche (ANR); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1466371

Journal Information:: Acta Materialia, Vol. 146, Issue C; ISSN 1359-6454

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Country of Publication:: United States

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