Magnetic Cooling

The world has become highly dependent on reliable refrigeration technology. Without it, our food supply would be still seasonal and limited to locally produced nonperishable items; comfortable living conditions via climate control would be impossible; and certain medical advancements, e.g. MRI diagnostics, organ transplantation, organ and tissue cryo-storage, and cryo-surgery would be impossible. This technology remains essentially unchanged since it was invented 100 years ago.

A mixed-ligand approach for a gigantic and hollow heterometallic cage {Ni_(64)Gd_(96)} for gas separation and magnetic cooling applications

Subject Code:E01With the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research team led by Prof.Zheng Yanzhan(郑彦臻)at the Frontier Institute of Science and Technology,Xi'an Jiaotong University,recently reported a gigantic rare-earth transition metal cuboidal hollow cluster {Ni_(64)Gd_(96)}that exhibits high selectivity for absorbing CO_2over CH_4or N_2at room temperature and large magnetocaloric effects at

Automatic compensation of magnetic field for a rubidium space cold atom clock

When the cold atom clock operates in microgravity around the near-earth orbit, its performance will be affected by the fluctuation of magnetic field. A strategy is proposed to suppress the fluctuation of magnetic field by additional coils, whose current is changed accordingly to compensate the magnetic fluctuation by the linear and incremental compensation. The flight model of the cold atom clock is tested in a simulated orbital magnetic environment and the magnetic field fluctuation in the Ramsey cavity is reduced from 17 nT to 2 nT, which implied the uncertainty due to the second order Zeeman shift is reduced to be less than 2×10^（-16）. In addition, utilizing the compensation, the magnetic field in the trapping zone can be suppressed from 7.5 μT to less than 0.3 μT to meet the magnetic field requirement of polarization gradients cooling of atoms.

Is SrRuO_3 Spin Glass

Zero field cooled (ZFC) and field cooled (FC) DC magnetization and AC susceptibility of sintered SrRuO 3 were measured over the magnetic ordering temperature. The peak in susceptibility against temperature shifts to lower temperature when the bias field increases. As the field still increases, the peak breaks into two peaks. One peak still shifts to lower temperature; the other shifts to higher temperature. Zero bias field susceptibility was measured at different frequencies. The peak value decreases as the increase of frequency, but it does not shift to higher temperature as reported previously. The results show that SrRuO 3 is not spin glass, but ferromagnet.

Controlled synthesis of hollow magnetic Fe3O4 nanospheres： Effect of the cooling rate

The controlled synthesis of hollow magnetite （Fe3O4） nanospheres of varying sizes and structures was successfully obtained via a facile solvothermal process and varying cooling processes. The Fe3O4 nanospheres were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, scanning elec- tron microscopy, and superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry. The diameters of the as-synthesized nanospheres were controlled at around 500-700 nm by simply changing the cool- ing rate, which had an obvious influence on the morphology and magnetic properties of these Fe3O4 nanospheres. While a low cooling rate triggered the formation and extension of the cracks present in the Fe3O4 nanospheres, a sudden drop of temperature tended to favor multi-site nucleation of the crystals as well as the formation of compact and smooth hollow nanospheres with superior crystallinity and high saturation magnetization. The growth mechanism of hollow magnetite oxide nanospheres was proposed and the correlation between the structure and the magnetic properties of the hollow nanospheres was discussed, which promises the potential of the hollow nanospheres in various applications such as drug delivery and cell separation.

Size-dependent exchange bias in single phase Mn_3O_4 nanoparticles

Glassy magnetic behavior and exchange bias phenomena are observed in single phase Mn3O4 nanoparticles.Dynamics scaling analysis of the ac susceptibility and the Henkel plot indicate that the observed glassy behavior at low temperature can be understood by taking into account the intrinsic behavior of the individual particles consisting of a ferrimagnetic（FIM） core and a spin-glass surface layer.Field-cooled magnetization hysteresis loops display both horizontal and vertical shifts.Dependence of the exchange bias field（HE） on the cooling field shows an almost undamped feature up to 70 kOe,indicating the stable exchange bias state in Mn3O4.HE increases as the particle size decreases due to the higher surface/volume ratio.The occurrence of the exchange bias can be attributed to the pinning effect of the frozen spin-glass surface layer upon the FIM core.

Design Evolution and Analysis of the ITER Cryostat Support System

The cryostat is a vacuum tight container enveloping the entire basic systems of the ITER tokamak machine,including a vacuum vessel,a superconducting magnet and thermal shield etc.It is evacuated to a pressure of 10^-4Pa to limit the heat transfer via gas conduction and convection to the cryogenically cooled components.Another important function of cryostat is to support all the loads from the tokamak to the concrete floor of the pit by its support system during different operational regimes and accident scenarios.This paper briefly presents the design evolution and associated analysis of the cryostat support system and the structural interface with the building.

Mass production of magnetocaloric LaFeMnSiB alloys with hydrogenation

LaFe_（11.39）Mn_（0.35）Si_（1.26）B_（0.1）Hxalloys were prepared by hydrogenation.Samples were annealed at 1343Kfor30-90 hto form the NaZn13 phase.La-rich andα-Fe secondary phases were also detected.Saturated hydrogenation at 553 Kand 0.15 MPa of H_2 pressure for 5hwas employed to improve the Curie temperature of the alloys to 279 K.The maximum magnetic entropy change,relative cooling power,and adiabatic temperature change of LaFe_（11.39）Mn_（0.35）Si_（1.26）B_（0.1）H_x annealed at 1343 Kfor 90hafter hydrogen absorption are 6.38J/（kg·K）（magnetic changesμ0ΔH =1.65T）,100.1J/kg（μ0ΔH =1.65T）,and 2.2 K（μ0ΔH =1.48T）,respectively.Although the maximum magnetic entropy change of the LaFe_（11.39）Mn_（0.35）Si_（1.26）B_（0.1）H_x alloys is lower than those of similar alloys with high purity raw materials,the relative cooling power is nearly the same.The effect of impurities of the raw materials used was also discussed.It is assumed that the impurity of 0.2wt.% Al is responsible for the reduced entropy change of the resulted alloys.The LaFe_（11.39）Mn_（0.35）Si_（1.26）B_（0.1）H_x alloys prepared by this method could be a low cost alternative material for room temperature magnetic cooling applications.