TY - JOUR
T1 - Vacancy-driven magnetocaloric effect in Prussian blue analogues
AU - Evangelisti, Marco
AU - Manuel, Espérança
AU - Affronte, Marco
AU - Okubo, Masashi
AU - Train, Cyrille
AU - Verdaguer, Michel
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is partially funded by the Italian MIUR under FIRB project No. RBNE01YLKN and by the EC-Network of Excellence “MAGMANet” (No. 515767). E.M. acknowledges support from the EC-Marie Curie network “QuEMolNa” (No. MRTN-CT-2003-504880). M.O. was supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Young Scientists.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - We experimentally show that the magnetocaloric properties of molecule-based Prussian blue analogues can be adjusted by controlling during the synthesis the amount of intrinsic vacancies. For Csx Ni4 II [CrIII (CN)6](8 + x) / 3, we find indeed that the ferromagnetic phase transition induces significantly large magnetic entropy changes, whose maxima shift from ∼ 68 to ∼ 95 K by varying the number of [CrIII (CN)6]3 - vacancies, offering a unique tunability of the magnetocaloric effect in this complex.
AB - We experimentally show that the magnetocaloric properties of molecule-based Prussian blue analogues can be adjusted by controlling during the synthesis the amount of intrinsic vacancies. For Csx Ni4 II [CrIII (CN)6](8 + x) / 3, we find indeed that the ferromagnetic phase transition induces significantly large magnetic entropy changes, whose maxima shift from ∼ 68 to ∼ 95 K by varying the number of [CrIII (CN)6]3 - vacancies, offering a unique tunability of the magnetocaloric effect in this complex.
KW - Long-range ferromagnetic order
KW - Magnetocaloric effect
KW - Prussian blue analog
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jmmm.2007.03.038
DO - 10.1016/j.jmmm.2007.03.038
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34250368358
SN - 0304-8853
VL - 316
SP - e569-e571
JO - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
JF - Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
IS - 2 SPEC. ISS.
ER -