New project article has been published in Scripta Materialia:
M. Rameš, O. Heczko, A. Sozinov, K. Ullakko, L. Straka, Magnetic properties of Ni-Mn-Ga-Co-Cu tetragonal martensites exhibiting magnetic shape memory effect, Scripta Materialia, Volume 142, 1 January 2018, Pages 61-65, ISSN 1359-6462, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scriptamat.2017.07.034. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359646217304517)
We investigated the effect of Co and Cu alloying on the magnetic properties of novel Ni-Mn-Ga-Co-Cu magnetic shape memory alloys. The alloying results in slight deterioration of magnetic properties, which is, however, well compensated by drastically improved mobility of twin boundaries. As a result a magnetic shape memory effect of 9% is observed in the new alloys.
