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NANOMATERIALS
Volume 10, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/nano10030435
Keywords
magnetocaloric effect; manganite; nanofibers; electrospinning
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- Secretaria de Educacion Publica de Mexico [F-PROMEP-39/Rev-04]
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We present experimental evidence about the magnetocaloric tuning effect in one-dimensional nanostructure fibers mixed-valence manganite as synthesized by electrospinning techniques and under heat treatments of 973, 1073 and 1173 K. The stoichiometry obtained is La0.7Ca0.23Sr0.07MnO3 and Rietveld refinement indicates a single-phase with an orthorhombic (Pnma) crystal structure. Scanning and transmission electron microscopy observations indicate coalescence in granular colonies of La0.7Ca0.23Sr0.07MnO3 nanoparticles to conform nanofibers. Magnetic entropy change is tuned due to heat treatments at 1173 K with maximum values of 1, 1.82 and 2.51 J/kgK for applied external magnetic fields of mu H-0 = 1, 2 and 3T, respectively, with a maximum magnetic entropy difference at a Curie temperature of 293 K (furthermore, second-order magnetic phase transition was observed). Additionally, for a magnetic field, similar to mu H-0 = 3 T values of 49, 95 and 143 J/kg for 973, 1073 and 1173 K heat-treated samples were obtained.
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