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SUBMITTER: McLeod MV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4832422 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McLeod M V MV Giri A K AK Paterson B A BA Dennis C L CL Zhou L L Vogel S C SC Gourdon O O Reiche H M HM Cho K C KC Sohn Y H YH Shull R D RD Majumdar B S BS
Acta materialia 20150901
Currently, there is significant interest in magnetocaloric materials for solid state refrigeration. In this work, polycrystalline Heusler alloys belonging to the Ni<sub>2+x</sub>Mn<sub>1-x</sub>Ga family, with x between 0.08 and 0.24, were evaluated for the purpose of finding composition(s) with an enhanced magnetocaloric effect (MCE) close to room temperature. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) was successfully used to screen alloy composition for simultaneous magnetic and structural phase ...[more]