Polycrystalline foams exhibiting giant magnetic-field-induced deformation and methods of making and using same
First Claim
1. A foam alloy material comprising:
- a polycrystalline porous structure of magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material;
said porous structure comprising struts of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material connected at nodes of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material, so that said porous structure comprises pores between said struts;
wherein at least a portion of said struts comprise twin boundaries that extend transversely across an entire strut.
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Abstract
Magnetic materials and methods exhibit large magnetic-field-induced deformation/strain (MFIS) through the magnetic-field-induced motion of crystallographic interfaces. The preferred materials are porous, polycrystalline composite structures of nodes connected by struts wherein the struts may be monocrystalline or polycrystalline. The materials are preferably made from magnetic shape memory alloy, including polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga, formed into an open-pore foam, for example, by space-holder technique. Removal of constraints that interfere with MFIS has been accomplished by introducing pores with sizes similar to grains, resulting in MFIS values of 0.12% in polycrystalline Ni—Mn—Ga foams, close to the best commercial magnetostrictive materials. Further removal of constraints has been accomplished by introducing pores smaller than the grain size, dramatically increasing MFIS to 2.0-8.7%. These strains, which remain stable over >200,000 cycles, are much larger than those of any polycrystalline, active material.
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23 Claims
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1. A foam alloy material comprising:
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a polycrystalline porous structure of magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material; said porous structure comprising struts of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material connected at nodes of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material, so that said porous structure comprises pores between said struts; wherein at least a portion of said struts comprise twin boundaries that extend transversely across an entire strut. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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2. A foam alloy material comprising:
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a polycrystalline porous structure of magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material; said porous structure comprising struts of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material connected at nodes of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material, so that said porous structure comprises pores between said struts; wherein at least a portion of said struts comprise twin boundaries that extend transversely across an entire strut, wherein said struts are comprised of grains of said magnetoplastic or magnetoelastic material and said pores are sized to be generally the size of said grains. - View Dependent Claims (3, 4, 5, 6)
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12. A magnetic material comprising:
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a polycrystalline porous structure of the solid magnetic material; said porous structure comprising polycrystalline struts connected at nodes; at least some of said polycrystalline struts including grain boundaries that extend transversely across an entire strut; wherein said porous structure comprises pores between said struts and in said nodes, said pores being of at least two ranges of pore size comprising a first pore-size-range, and a second, smaller pore-size-range. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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