Improving barocaloric properties by tailoring transition hysteresis in Mn₃Cu₁-ₓSnₓN antiperovskites
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Abstract
The magnetically frustrated manganese nitride antiperovskite family displays significant changes of entropy under changes in hydrostatic pressure near a first-order antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase transition that can be useful for the emerging field of solid-state barocaloric cooling. In previous studies, the transition hysteresis has significantly reduced the reversible barocaloric effects (BCE). Here we show that the transition hysteresis can be tailored through quaternary alloying in the Mn3Cu$_{1-x}$Sn$_{x}$N system. We find the magnitude of hysteresis is minimised when Cu and Sn are equiatomic (x = 0.5) reaching values far less than previously found for Mn3AN ($A = $ Pd, Ni, Ga, Zn), whilst retaining entropy changes of the same order of magnitude. These results demonstrate that reversible BCE are achievable for p < 100 MPa in the Mn3(A, B)N family and suggest routes to modify the transition properties in compounds of the same family.
Date Issued
2023-04-01
Date Acceptance
2023-03-23
Citation
JPhys Energy, 2023, 5 (2), pp.1-10
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2515-7655
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IOP Publishing
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1
End Page
10
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JPhys Energy
Volume
5
Issue
2
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7655/acc6f0
Grant Number
EP/V042262/1
EP/P030548/1
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Published
Article Number
024018
Date Publish Online
2023-04-12