Journal
ACTA MATERIALIA
Volume 226, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2022.117669
Keywords
Magnetocaloric performances; Magnetic phase transition; Magnetocaloric (MC) effect; Rare earths based double perovskite oxides
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [52071197]
- Pioneer and Leading Goose R&D Program of Zhejiang [2022C01230]
- Science and Technology Committee of Shanghai Municipality [19ZR1418300, 19DZ2270200]
- Independent Research and Development Project of State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Advanced Ferrometallurgy, Shanghai University [SKLASS 2021-Z05]
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Utilizing the magnetocaloric effects of magnetic solids, magnetic refrigeration (MR) technology has been recognized as a promising energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technology. In this study, a combined theoretical and experimental investigation of the crystal structure, magnetic properties, magnetic phase transition, and magnetocaloric performances in Gd2MgTiO6 oxide was reported. The results demonstrated the excellent magnetocaloric performances of Gd2MgTiO6 DP oxide, making it a promising candidate material for cryogenic MR applications.
The magnetic refrigeration (MR) technology by utilizing the magnetocaloric (MC) effects of magnetic solids have been realized to be a promising energy efficiency and environmentally friendly technology. Developing or discovering proper magnetic solids with promising MC performances is one of the most important tasks at present stage since a huge gap still exists between the requirement of practical MR application and the MC performances of the magnetic solids. Herein, we reported a combined theoretical and experimental investigation of the crystal structure together with the magnetic properties, magnetic phase transition (MPT) and MC performances in Gd2MgTiO6 oxide. The Gd2MgTiO6 is confirmed to crystalize in a B-site ordered monoclinic double perovskite (DP) crystal structure. A rather unstable anti ferromagnetic (AFM) interaction with large magnetic moment and semi-conductor characteristic with the band gap of 2.977 eV have been confirmed in Gd2MgTiO6 DP oxide at ground state. Giant reversible cryogenic MC effect together with excellent MC performances have been confirmed by a series of the figure of merits including the values of maximum magnetic entropy change (-Delta S-M) and refrigerant capacity ( RC ), which are evaluated to be 46.21 J/kgK and 300.27 J/kg around 3.3 K with the magnetic change of 0-7 T, these values are much better than most of the recently reported famous cryogenic MC materials and the commercialized magnetic refrigerants gadolinium gallium garnet (GGG) as well. The observed excellent MC performances suggest that Gd2MgTiO6 DP oxide is a promising candidate material for cryogenic MR applications. (c) 2022 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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