Search Results - "Mañosa, L."
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Colossal barocaloric effects near room temperature in plastic crystals of neopentylglycol
Published in Nature communications (18-04-2019)“…There is currently great interest in replacing the harmful volatile hydrofluorocarbon fluids used in refrigeration and air-conditioning with solid materials…”
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Tuning avalanche criticality: Acoustic emission during the martensitic transformation of a compressed Ni-Mn-Ga single crystal
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (03-12-2012)“…The propagation of a phase front during a thermally induced martensitic transition is discontinuous due to pinning at various defects, an effect which results…”
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Fe and Co selective substitution in Ni2MnGa: Effect of magnetism on relative phase stability
Published in Philosophical magazine (Abingdon, England) (28-05-2010)“…We studied the effect of selective substitution in Fe and Co 3d elements on the structural and magnetic phase transitions in the prototypical magnetic shape…”
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Combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the premartensitic transition in Ni2MnGa
Published in Physical review letters (25-04-2008)“…Ultraviolet-photoemission (UPS) measurements and supporting specific-heat, thermal-expansion, resistivity, and magnetic-moment measurements are reported for…”
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Caloric and Multicaloric Effects in Shape Memory Alloys
Published in Materials today : proceedings (2015)“…Caloric properties rely on the reversible thermal response of a given material to changes induced by an applied field. In magnetic shape-memory materials,…”
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Athermal character of structural phase transitions
Published in Physical review letters (05-11-2001)“…The significance of thermal fluctuations in nucleation in structural first-order phase transitions has been examined. The prototypical case of martensitic…”
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Magnetic shape memory in Ni–Mn–Ga and Ni–Mn–Al
Published in Journal of magnetism and magnetic materials (01-05-2004)“…As opposed to the existence of a single L2 1 parent phase in Ni 2MnGa at room temperature, off-stoichiometric Ni 2MnAl alloys are found in a mixed B2…”
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Localizing sources of acoustic emission during the martensitic transformation
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (30-06-2014)“…Acoustic avalanches are a general feature of solids under stress, e.g., evoked by external compression or arising from internal processes like martensitic…”
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Distributions of avalanches in martensitic transformations
Published in Physical review letters (14-03-1994)“…An experimental study of the acoustic emission generated during a martensitic transformation is presented. A statistical analysis of the amplitude and lifetime…”
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Dynamics of the first-order magnetostructural transition in Gd5(SixGe1-x)4
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Giant barocaloric effects at low pressure in ferrielectric ammonium sulphate
Published in Nature communications (26-11-2015)“…Caloric effects are currently under intense study due to the prospect of environment-friendly cooling applications. Most of the research is centred on large…”
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Elastic constants of Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloys
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics (01-08-2004)“…We have measured the adiabatic second order elastic constants of two Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory crystals with different martensitic transition…”
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Inverse magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetic Ni-Mn-Sn alloys
Published in Nature materials (01-06-2005)“…The magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in paramagnetic materials has been widely used for attaining very low temperatures by applying a magnetic field isothermally…”
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A comparative study of the post-quench behaviour of Cu–Al–Be and Cu–Zn–Al shape memory alloys
Published in Acta materialia (23-01-1998)“…This paper reports a comparative investigation of the effect of quenching on the Cu–Al–Be and Cu–Zn–Al shape memory alloys by the use of several experimental…”
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Fe and Co selective substitution in Ni 2 MnGa: Effect of magnetism on relative phase stability
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Metallic state and the metal-insulator transition of NdNiO3
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter (15-10-1993)“…We report detailed measurements of the electrical resistivity, Seebeck coefficient, and differential scanning calorimetry across the metal-insulator (MI)…”
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Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Premartensitic Transition in Ni 2 MnGa
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Lattice-dynamical study of the premartensitic state of the Cu-Al-Be alloys
Published in Physical review. B, Condensed matter (01-12-1993)“…Neutron-scattering techniques have been used to study the premartensitic state of a family of Cu-Al-Be alloys, which transform from the bcc phase to an 18R…”
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