Advances in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys
A special issue of Metals (ISSN 2075-4701). This special issue belongs to the section "Entropic Alloys and Meta-Metals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 384
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Recent changes in international policy, particularly in the European Union, have sparked innovative research in energy conversion technologies. These technologies are useful in a wide range of applications including environmentally friendly refrigeration, non-pneumatic precision actuation, magneto-mechanical energy harvesting, and thermomagnetic or magneto-mechanical sensing. Thus, multifunctional shape memory alloys (SMAs) are ideal candidates for these energy conversion systems and have shown promise for solving these novel complex problems.
The future perspective of SMA applications is exciting, particularly due to their high coefficients of performance (COPs) and energy conversion efficiencies. However, one of the main prerequisites for their future success is improved mechanical properties. Recent developments have led to the discovery of NiCoMnTi magnetic shape memory alloys that exhibit excellent mechanical properties in combination with meta-magnetic transitions. It is my hope that further microstructural design in magnetic SMAs will lead to new structure–property relationships that will further expand their application envelopes and pave the way for the development of commercialized energy conversion systems.
This Special Issue of Metals focuses on the structure-property relationships in magnetic shape memory alloys. The papers presented in this Special Issue give an account of the recent developments in microstructural engineering and processing, which yield improved mechanical and magnetic properties in all alloys that exhibit reversible martensitic phase transitions (see the Keywords/Topics below). Your contribution is highly valued and appreciated. We invite you to contribute research that studies the effect of processing on the structure of novel SMAs and the resulting magnetic and mechanical properties.
Dr. Nickolaus M. Bruno
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structure–property relationships
- magnetic shape memory alloys
- multifunctional systems
- magnetostress
- magnetocaloric
- elastocaloric
- energy harvesting
- sensing
- solid-state actuation
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