Achievement of giant cryogenic refrigerant capacity in quinary rare-earths based high-entropy amorphous alloy

doi:10.1016/j.jmst.2021.06.028

Abstract

Abstract:

Magnetic refrigeration (MR) by utilizing the magnetocaloric (MC) effect is recognized as one of the most potential promising solid state environmentally friendly and high efficiency alternative method to the well-used state-of-the-art gas compression cooling technique. In this work, a systematic investigation of quinary equi-atomic rare-earths (RE) based Er₂₀Ho₂₀Gd₂₀Ni₂₀Co₂₀ high-entropy (HE) amorphous alloy in terms of the microstructure, magnetic and magnetocaloric (MC) properties have been reported. The Er₂₀Ho₂₀Gd₂₀Ni₂₀Co₂₀ exhibits promising glass forming ability with an undercooled liquid region of 72 K. Excellent cryogenic MC performances can be found in wide temperature from ~25 and ~75 K, close to H₂ and N₂ liquefaction, respectively. Apart from the largest magnetic entropy change (-ΔS_M) reaches 17.84 J/(kg K) with 0-7 T magnetic field change, corresponding refrigerant capacity (RC) attains a giant value of 1030 J/kg. The promising cryogenic MC performances together with the unique HE amorphous characterizations make the quinary Er₂₀Ho₂₀Gd₂₀Ni₂₀Co₂₀ HE amorphous alloy attractive for cryogenic MR applications.

Key words: HE-amorphous ribbons, Magnetocaloric performances, Rare earths, Magnetic properties, Giant refrigerant capacity

Yikun Zhang, Jian Zhu, Shuo Li, Jiang Wang Zhongming Ren. Achievement of giant cryogenic refrigerant capacity in quinary rare-earths based high-entropy amorphous alloy[J]. J. Mater. Sci. Technol., 2022, 102: 66-71.

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Fig. 1. (a) The room temperature XRD pattern for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons at room temperature. (b) The DSC trace for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons.

Fig. 2. The mixing enthalpy and atomics size for all the constituent elements in Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons.

Fig. 3. (a) The HRTEM image for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE-amorphous ribbons. (b) The SAED pattern for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE-amorphous ribbons. (c)-(f) The EDS mapping results of five consistent elementals for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE-amorphous ribbons, respectively.

Fig. 4. (a) (Left-hand scale) FC and ZFC magnetization M versus T with H = 0.2 T and of FC M versus T with H of 1 T for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons; (right-hand scale) dMFC/dT versus T with H of 0.2 and 1 T for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons. (b) M(T) curves with H of 2-7 T for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons.

Fig. 5. (a) The M(H) curves for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons. (b) The transferred Arrott plot curves (M2 versus H/M) of Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons.

Fig. 6. The-ΔSM(T) curves for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE amorphous ribbons, the inset illustrates the universal curves.

Fig. 7. The ΔH dependence of-ΔSMmax and RC for Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE-amorphous ribbons.

Fig. 8. The comparison of RC for the present Er20Ho20Gd20Ni20Co20 HE-amorphous ribbons and some RE based amorphous materials as well as several famous MR materials, including Gd55Ni25Al20 [47], Gd50Co20Al30 [22], Gd55Co20Al25 [48], Gd55Co30Al15 [49], Gd33Er22Co15Al20 [24], Gd46Ni32Al22 [50], Gd55Al24Co20Zr3 [24], Gd55Al18Ni25Sn2 [44], Gd60Co26Al14 [48], Gd40Ni45Al15 [50], Gd39Dy17Co20Al24 [51], Ho36Dy20Co20Al24 [52], Er50Y6Co20Al24 [53], Gd36Y20Co20Al24 [54], Dy50Gd7Co20Al23 [55], Gd [43], Gd5Si2Ge1.9Fe0.1 [56], and Gd5Si2Ge2 [44].

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