Magnetocaloric effect in hexacyanochromate Prussian blue analogs
Espérança Manuel, Marco Evangelisti, Marco Affronte, Masashi Okubo, Cyrille Train, Michel Verdaguer
2006
Physical Review B
We report on the magnetocaloric properties of two molecule-based hexacyanochromate Prussian blue analogs, nominally CsNi[Cr(CN)_6](H_2O) and Cr_3[Cr(CN)_6]_2x12(H_2O). The former orders ferromagnetically below Tc=90 K, whereas the latter is a ferrimagnet below Tc=230 K. For both, we find significantly large magnetic entropy changes DSm associated to the magnetic phase transitions. Notably, our studies represent the first attempt to look at molecule-based materials in terms of the magnetocaloric
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doi:10.1103/physrevb.73.172406
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