Journal
SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS
Volume 65, Issue 4, Pages 1134-1142Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s40843-021-1825-1
Keywords
high-entropy metallic-glass; magnetocaloric effect; universal curve; current annealing; dual-phase
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51827801, 51871076, 52171154, 51801044]
- 66th China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M661275]
- AEI/FEDER-UE [PID2019-105720RB-I00]
- US/JUNTA/FEDER-UE [US-1260179]
- Consejeria de Economia, Conocimiento, Empresas y Universidad de la Junta de Andalucia [P18-RT-746]
- China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201906120183]
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This study optimized the magnetocaloric responses of non-equiatomic high-entropy alloys microwires by controlling microstructure, leading to a widened working temperature range and significantly increased cooling power values. Introducing nanocrystals during processing, along with using two reference temperatures in the scaling procedure, helped overcome challenges posed by the multi-phase character of the materials.
Non-equiatomic high-entropy alloys (HEAs), the second-generation multi-phase HEAs, have been recently reported with outstanding properties that surpass the typical limits of conventional alloys and/or the first-generation equiatomic single-phase HEAs. For magnetocaloric HEAs, non-equiatomic (Gd36Tb20Co20Al24)(100-x)Fe-x microwires, with Curie temperatures up to 108 K, overcome the typical low temperature limit of rare-earth-containing HEAs (which typically concentrate lower than around 60 K). For alloys with x = 2 and 3, they possess some nanocrystals, though very minor, which offers a widening in the Curie temperature distribution. In this work, we further optimize the magnetocaloric responses of x = 3 microwires by microstructural control using the current annealing technique. With this processing method, the precipitation of nanocrystals within the amorphous matrix leads to a phase compositional difference in the microwires. The multi-phase character leads to challenges in rescaling the magnetocaloric curves, which is overcome by using two reference temperatures during the scaling procedure. The phase composition difference increases with increasing current density, whereby within a certain range, the working temperature span broadens and simultaneously offers relative cooling power values that are at least 2-fold larger than many reported conventional magnetocaloric alloys, both single amorphous phase or multi-phase character (amorphous and nanocrystalline). Among the amorphous rare-earth-containing HEAs, our work increases the working temperature beyond the typical <60 K limit while maintaining a comparable magnetocaloric effect. This demonstrates that microstructural control is a feasible way, in addition to appropriate compositional design selection, to optimize the magnetocaloric effect of HEAs.
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