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Magnetic cooling: from materials to application

Gottschall, T.

With the world's increasingly affluent population demanding more comfortable living and working conditions, it is vital that we address the development of much more efficient cooling technologies as an urgent priority. An alternative approach is based on solid-state refrigeration by one of the caloric effects – electrocaloric, magnetocaloric, barocaloric or elastocaloric - where the material's temperature is forced to change under the application of an electrical, magnetic, or mechanical field. However, there is also the possibility to combine these different effects in a beneficial way, in the so-called multicaloric cooling cycle. Magnetic Ni-Mn-based Heusler alloys are ideally suited for multicaloric applications due to their coupled magnetostructural transformation between martensite and austenite. In this work, we discuss the current progress in the characterization of these materials for novel cooling technologies.

  • Invited lecture (Conferences) (Online presentation)
    Phd-Retreat CRC 270, 02.12.2021, Darmstadt, Deutschland

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