Álvarez, PabloGorria, PedroSánchez Llamazares, José L.Pérez, María J.Franco García, VictorinoBlanco, Jesús A.2017-01-172017-01-172011Álvarez, P., Gorria, P., Sánchez Llamazares, J.L., Pérez, M.J., Franco García, V. y Blanco, J.A. (2011). Magneto-caloric effect in the pseudo-binary intermetallic YPrFe17 compound. Materials Chemistry and Physics, 131 (1-2), 18-22.0254-0584http://hdl.handle.net/11441/52314We have synthesized the intermetallic YPrFe17 compound by arc-melting. X-ray and neutron powder diffraction show that the crystal structure is rhombohedral with View the MathML source space group (Th2Zn17-type). The investigated compound exhibits a broad isothermal magnetic entropy change {\Delta}SM(T) associated with the ferro-to-paramagnetic phase transition (TC \approx 290 K). The |{\Delta}SM| (\approx 2.3 J kg-1 K-1) and the relative cooling power (\approx 100 J kg-1) have been calculated for applied magnetic field changes up to 1.5 T. A single master curve for {\Delta}SM under different values of the magnetic field change can be obtained by a rescaling of the temperature axis. The results are compared and discussed in terms of the magneto-caloric effect in the isostructural R2Fe17 (R = Y, Pr and Nd) binary intermetallic alloysapplication/pdfengAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2011.09.062