Published September 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Vacancy-driven magnetocaloric effect in Prussian blue analogues

  • 1. National Research Center on 'nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces' (S3), INFM-CNR, 41100 Modena (Italy)
  • 2. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, 41100 Modena (Italy)
  • 3. Chimie Inorganique et Materiaux Moleculaires, Unite CNRS 7071, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris (France)

Description

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 CsxNi4II[CrIII(China)6](8+x)/3, we find indeed that the ferromagnetic phase transition induces significantly large magnetic entropy changes, whose maxima shift from ∼68 to ∼95K by varying the number of [CrIII(China)6]3- vacancies, offering a unique tunability of the magnetocaloric effect in this complex

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.jmmm.2007.03.038;
arXiv
arXiv:cond-mat/0605228v1;
PII
S0304-8853(07)00345-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Journal Volume
316
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. e569-e571
ISSN
0304-8853
CODEN
JMMMDC

Conference

Title
Joint European magnetic symposia
Dates
26-30 Jun 2006
Place
San Sebastian (Spain)

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