New accepted article in Materials Advances:
On the magnetocaloric effect in biphasic FeCrSiB amorphous composites
Authors: Alba Sanz-Prada, Javier López-García, Kenny Padrón-Alemán, Jose María Porro, José Luis Sánchez Llamazares, Jesús A. Blanco Pedro Gorria & Pablo Álvarez-Alonso
Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D6MA00481D
Congratulations to Dr. student Kenny Padrón-Alemán for his brilliant thesis dissertation:
Propiedades fundamentales y funcionales de aleaciones masivas de Fe–Rh con composición cercana a la equiatómica bajo diferentes estímulos
We are pleased to announce that our student Kenny Padrón Alemán GEFES 2025 with two works:
This poster presents a detailed study of the magnetic structure of the ternary rare-earth-based compound TbFeSi synthesized by rapid solidification.
This poster describes how the combination of doping and grain boundary engineering improves the thermoelectric figure of merit.
New accepted article in Journal of Alloys and Compounds:
Magnetovolume-driven Zero (ZTE) and Negative (NTE) Thermal Expansion in Tb2Fe17 with Uncommon Rhombohedral Crystal Structure
Authors: José Luis Garrido-Álvarez, Pablo Nieves, Cristina Echevarria-Bonet, Inés Puente-Orench, Javier López-García, Pedro Gorria, Jesús A. Blanco, & Pablo Álvarez-Alonso
Manuscript DOI:10.1016/j.jallcom.2026.187870
New accepted article in Journal of Alloys and Compounds:
Magnetic and Structural Dynamics of First-Order Phase Transition in Giant Magnetocaloric Fe49Rh51
Authors: André Azevedo Beleza, Leonor Andrade, André M. R. Soares, Kenny Padrón-Alemán, María Luisa Arreguín Hernández, A. M. Milinda Abeykoon, John S. O. Evans, A. M. dos Santos, R. Almeida, Joao Pedro Araújo, N. Dempsey, J. S. Amaral, Pablo Álvarez-Alonso, José L. Sánchez Llamazares & João Horta Belo
Manuscript DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.185119
Congratulations to our team, and spectially A. Sanz-Prada, for the article accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry C:
Promising magnetocaloric performance of nanostructured GdFeSi intermetallic ribbons for efficient natural gas liquefaction purposes
Authors: Alba Sanz-Prada, Pablo Álvarez-Alonso, José L. Sánchez Llamazares, Luis Escobedo, José S. Garitaonandia, Pedro Gorria, Jesús A. Blanco & Javier López-García
Manuscript DOI: 10.1039/D5TC02968F
We are pleased to announce that our article has been accepted in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C:
Delving into the correlation between magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom from magnetocaloric and magnetovolume effects in Lu2Fe17 ribbons
Authors: José Garrido-Álvarez, María Arreguín Hernández, Cristina Echevarría Bonet, Pedro Gorria, Inés Puente Orench, François Fauth, Jesús Blanco, José Luis Sánchez Llamazares, Pablo Álvarez-Alonso
Manuscript ID: jp-2025-04207h
Elif Cansu Aslantuğ, Erasmus master’s student from Adiyaman University (Turkey), visits us. She will work on the synthesis of low-temperature shape memory magnetic materials.
Congratulations to Alba Sanz for her French government fellowship for a research stay at the Institute Laue-Langevin.
Here is the back cover of J. Mat. Chem. C featuring our latest work: Scrutinizing the sharp magnetoelastic transition and kinetic arrest in Fe49Rh51 alloy using neutron thermo-diffraction
Alba Sanz Prada will undertake a research stay at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble to learn from experts in neutron diffraction.
Professor José Luis Sánchez Llamazares from Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (IPICYT) (Mexico) visits us. We will work for a month on high magnetocaloric effect materials.
Congratulations to Dr. José Luis Garrido-Álvarez for his brilliant thesis dissertation
Advanced Magnetocaloric and Thermoelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting
We are pleased to announce that our students José Luis Garrido Álvarez and Alba Sanz Prada participate in GEFES 2025 with two works:
This poster presents a detailed study of the magnetic structure of the ternary rare-earth-based compound TbFeSi synthesized by rapid solidification.
This poster describes how the combination of doping and grain boundary engineering improves the thermoelectric figure of merit.
Visiting professors Horacio Flores Zúñiga and Juan Pablo Camarillo García presented their works on Caloric Effects in Heusler-type Alloys to the university community.
Professors Horacio Flores Zúñiga from IPICYT and Juan Pablo Camarillo García from Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas (UAZ) (Mexico) visited us. We will work on the development of caloric effect materials.