Investigation of martensitic structure in elastocaloric CuZnAl alloys

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The need for efficient and environmentally friendly heating/cooling systems is increasing. The use of heat-pump based on solid state phase transformation are promising, in particularly elasto-caloric materials. CuZnAl alloys (b-brass) are on a material resource and CO2 emission perspectives among the best candidates. Elasto-caloric effect is based on a non displacive crystallographic transition between a high symmetry crystal structure, austenite (cubic) and lower symmetry one, martensite (monoclinic), activated around room temperature thermally or by shear stress. The main bottleneck toward applications is the short fatigue life, due to the lattice mismatch between both phases. Optimizing the composition for high lattice compatibility would allow to reach 10 cycles. We aim at fine crystallographic charactrizations of the transformation on unexplored compositions using μLaue diffraction coupled with a novel in situ technique allowing high resolution Bragg energy determination.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-2118292522
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/2118292522
Provenance
Creator Guillaume BEUTIER ORCID logo; Laureline PORCAR; Oneil GOISOT; Geronimo CASTRO; ODILE ROBACH ORCID logo; Marc VERDIER ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2028
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
OpenAccess true
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Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields