Browsing by Author "Gibbs, A"

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    Quantified zero thermal expansion in magnetic R2Fe17-based intermetallic compounds (R = rare earth)
    (American Chemical Society, 2023-06-13) Cao, YL; Matsukawa, T; Gibbs, A; Avdeev, M; Wang, CW; Wu, H; Huang, QZ; Ohoyama, K; Ishigaki, T; Zhou, H; Li, Q; Miao, J; Lin, K; Xing, XR
    Zero thermal expansion (ZTE) has been a fascinating task for the past few decades due to its great scientific and practical merits. To realize ZTE, negative thermal expansion is typically employed by chemical substitutions on tuning structure features, which often relies on trial and error. Here, we report on exploring quantification of thermal expansion with magnetic ordering in an intermetallic class of R2Fe17 (R = rare earth), which can accurately determine the ZTE composition using a documented database. It demonstrates that the magnetic ordering of the Fe-sublattice contributes to the thermal expansion anomaly through simultaneous examinations of magnetization and neutron powder diffraction. Alternative elements can be manipulated on a Fe-sublattice to control both the total ordered magnetic moments of the Fe-sublattice and Curie temperature, which tailors the temperature variation of the magnetic contributions on thermal expansion. The current work might point to a future for ZTE high throughput searches, anticipated to benefit applications. © 2023 American Chemical Society
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    Ultrawide temperature range super-invar behavior of R2(Fe, Co)17 materials (R = rare earth)
    (American Physical Society, 2021-07-30) Cao, YL; Lin, KM; Khmelevskyi, S; Avdeev, M; Taddei, KM; Zhang, Q; Huang, QZ; Li, Q; Kato, K; Tang, CC; Gibbs, A; Wang, CW; Deng, JX; Chen, J; Zhang, HJ; Xing, XR
    Super Invar (SIV), i.e., zero thermal expansion of metallic materials underpinned by magnetic ordering, is of great practical merit for a wide range of high precision engineering. However, the relatively narrow temperature window of SIV in most materials restricts its potential applications in many critical fields. Here, we demonstrate the controlled design of thermal expansion in a family of R2(Fe,Co)17 materials (R=rare Earth). We find that adjusting the Fe-Co content tunes the thermal expansion behavior and its optimization leads to a record-wide SIV with good cyclic stability from 3–461 K, almost twice the range of currently known SIV. In situ neutron diffraction, Mössbauer spectra and first-principles calculations reveal the 3d bonding state transition of the Fe-sublattice favors extra lattice stress upon magnetic ordering. On the other hand, Co content induces a dramatic enhancement of the internal molecular field, which can be manipulated to achieve “ultrawide” SIV over broad temperature, composition and magnetic field windows. These findings pave the way for exploiting thermal-expansion-control engineering and related functional materials. © 2021 American Physical Society