Jia Li

Liaoning University of Technology | LUT · School of Materials Science and Engineering

Modifying the crystal structure and corresponding functional properties of complex oxides by regulating their oxygen content has promising applications in energy conversion and chemical looping, where controlling oxygen migration plays an important role. Therefore, finding an efficacious and feasible method to facilitate oxygen migration has become...

Multilevel nonvolatile regulation (MNR) is demonstrated in a heterostructure composed of an amorphous hard magnetic SmCo thin film and a (011)-oriented ferroelectric 0.7Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.3PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) substrate. Two alternative ways of obtaining MNR are employed: the quasi-unipolar method and the quasi-minor-loop method, both of which utilize t...

Dual field driven caloric effect has aroused great interest in recent years. Hydrostatic pressure can shift the temperature zone of magnetocaloric effect(MCE), but seldom enhance its magnitude. Here, a large enhancement of MCE driven by pressure under magnetic field available by permanent magnet has been achieved in HoCuSi compound without introduc...

Zero thermal expansion (ZTE) materials, particularly metals, have important applications in precision manufacturing. Here, ultra-low thermal expansion over a significantly broadened temperature interval is realized by tuning Gd content in ferrimagnetic(FIM) Gdx(Dy0.5Ho0.5)1-xCo2 compounds. The achieved coefficients of thermal expansion αl ~+1.3 × 1...

Manipulating topotactic phase transformations via orderly ion transfer in complex oxides ABOx is ubiquitous in advanced applications such as ionotronics, ion-batteries and catalysts. Most of such ion-mediated transformations are accomplished by the transfer of oxygen or A-site ions. However, implementing the transformation via the transfer of B-sit...

Solid-state refrigeration based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has garnered worldwide attention because of its superior energy conservation and its environmentally friendly impact. Many materials exhibiting magnetostructural/magnetoelastic transitions have been identified by their giant MCE as promising refrigerants. The common feature of these...

Ni2In-type hexagonal compounds MM′X (M, M′ = transition metals, X = main element) involving magnetostructural transition (MST) have attracted much attention due to their giant magnetocaloric effect (MCE). Physical pressure, as an effective method, has been used to adjust the MST and the resultant MCE. Enhanced and diminished MCEs by hydrostatic pre...

The narrow temperature span, ΔTspan, of first-order magnetocaloric materials is a serious problem that limits the application as refrigerants. Here we report tunable phase transition and magnetocaloric effect controlled by ferroelectric (FE) domains in FeRh films grown on (001)- and (011)-cut PMN-PT substrates. Adjacent two-step phase transition, a...

The multicaloric effect refers to the thermal response of a solid material driven by simultaneous or sequential application of more than one type of external field. For practical applications, the multicaloric effect is a potentially interesting strategy to improve the efficiency of refrigeration devices. Here, the state of the art in multi-field d...

Phase transition and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) in Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 (NSMO) epitaxial thin films were tailored through controlling the lattice-mismatch-induced-strain by depositing on (011) - (La0.18Sr0.82)(Al0.59Ta0.41)O3 (LAST) and SrTiO3 (STO) single crystalline substrates, respectively. The NSMO film grown on STO, exhibiting uniaxial like tensile...

Amorphous Sm–Co films with uniaxial in-plane anisotropy have great potential for application in information-storage media and spintronic materials. The most effective method to produce uniaxial in-plane anisotropy is to apply an in-plane magnetic field during deposition. However, this method inevitably requires more complex equipment. Here, we repo...

As living standards increase, the energy consumption in refrigeration, such as air-conditioning and refrigerators, tremendously increases and intensifies global warming. As an alternative for the conventional vapor compression technique, solid state refrigeration based on magnetocaloric effect shows significant potential due to energy-saving and en...

A tunable and nonvolatile electrical modulation of magnetization at room temperature is firstly demonstrated in a magnetically hard amorphous SmCo film grown onto (011)-cut 0.7Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.3PbTiO3 (PMN-PT) substrate. Uniaxial in-plane anisotropy with hard/easy axis lying in [100]/[01-1] direction occurs. Bipolar electric field, E, across the...

An anomalous polarity-dependent electrostatic field modulation effect, facilitated by spatial confinement, is found in an oxide-based field effect prototype device with spatial confined Pr0.7(Ca0.6Sr0.4)0.3MnO3 channel. It is revealed that the dominant field modulation mode under a small bias field varies from a polarity-independent strain-mediated...

Polycrystalline MnCoGe0.99In0.01 with magnetostructural transition temperature (Tmstr) around 330 K has been prepared by arc-melting technique, and the pressure-tuned magnetostructural transition as well as the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has been investigated. The experimental results indicate that a pressure (P) smaller than 0.53 GPa can shift Tm...

Modulating the oxygen defect concentration has been accepted as an effective method to obtain high catalytic activity in perovskite cobaltites. However, controllably modifying the oxygen vacancy is still a challenge in this type of materials, which strongly obstructs their application. Here, we report a successful oxygen vacancies modulation in the...

Herein, hydrogenated La0.8Ce0.2Fe12.5Mn0.2Si1.3Hδ plates as thin as 0.4–0.6 mm with extra Fe were prepared, whereupon the microstructure, mechanical properties, age stability, and magnetocaloric effect (MCE) were systematically investigated. It was demonstrated that the introduction of extra α-Fe largely enhanced the mechanical properties. The bend...

In this paper, we have investigated the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) and its modulation by electric field in La0.325Pr0.3Ca0.375MnO3 (LPCMO) films grown on (011)-oriented PMN-PT substrates. As a typical perovskite manganite with phase separation, the LPCMO bulk shows a considerable MCE, but the MCE of the LPCMO films has never been investigated. We...

The effect of hydrostatic pressure on the spin-reorientation transition and magnetocaloric effect in PrGa compound has been experimentally investigated. Because of the significant change of lattice parameter along with the spin reorientation, hydrostatic pressure can largely shift the spin reorientation temperature TSR from 28 K down to 16 K under...

Materials with zero thermal expansion (ZTE) or precisely tailored thermal expansion are in urgent demand of modern industries. However, the overwhelming majority of materials show positive thermal expansion. To develop ZTE or negative thermal expansion (NTE) materials as compensators has become an important challenge. Here, we present the evidence...

Introducing and modulating the oxygen deficiency concentration have been received as an effective ways to obtain high catalytic activity in perovskite oxides. However, it is difficult to control over the oxygen vacancy in the conventional oxygen defect engineering due to the harsh reaction conditions at elevated temperatures and reducing atmosphere...

The electric field dependent high-temperature small-polaron hopping conduction was investigated in patterned Pr0.7(Ca0.6Sr0.4)0.3MnO3 strips. The small-polaronic activation energy EA and the carrier localization were found to decrease with the reduction of the strip size. Meanwhile, a similar dependence on the strip size was also obtained for the c...