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    • A ferroelastic film at the edge of chaos 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel (2019-08-22)
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    • A thermodynamically consistent phase diagram of a trimorphic pharmaceutical, L-tyrosine ethyl ester, based on limited experimental data 

      Nicolaï, Béatrice; Barrio Casado, María del; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Polian, Alain; Itié, Jean-Paul; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Rietveld, Ivo B. (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018-08-29)
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    • Advances and obstacles in pressure-driven solid-state cooling: A review of barocaloric materials 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Tamarit Mur, José Luis (2021-02-12)
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      Solid-state caloric effects promise since decades a disruptive cooling technology that should be more efficient and cleaner than current vapor compression. However, despite relevant achievements have been made, it is still ...
    • Barocaloric and magnetocaloric effects in (MnNiSi)1-x(FeCoGe)x 

      Tapas, Samanta; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Us Saleheen, Ahmad; Lepkowski, Daniel L.; Kramer, Emily; Dubenko, Igor; Adams, Philip W.; Young, David P.; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Ali, Naushad; Stadler, Shane (2018-01-11)
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    • Barocaloric and magnetocaloric effects in Fe49Rh51 

      Stern-Taulats, E.; Planes, Antoni; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Pramanick, Sabyasachi; Majumdar, Subham; Frontera, Carlos; Mañosa, Lluís (2014-06-06)
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      We report on calorimetry under applied hydrostatic pressure and magnetic field at the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic (AFM/FM) transition of Fe49Rh51. Results demonstrate the existence of a giant barocaloric effect in this ...
    • Barocaloric properties of quaternary Mn3(Zn,In)N for room-temperature refrigeration applications 

      Boldrin, David; Mendive-Tapia, Eduardo; Zemen, Jan; Staunton, Julie b.; Aznar Luque, Araceli; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Moya Raposo, Xavier; Cohen, Leslie (American Physical Society (APS), 2021-10-01)
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      The magnetically frustrated manganese nitride antiperovskite family displays significant changes of entropy under hydrostatic pressure that can be useful for the emerging field of barocaloric cooling. Here we show that ...
    • Colossal barocaloric effects in adamantane derivatives for thermal management 

      Salvatori, Alejandro; Negrier, Philippe; Aznar Luque, Araceli; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2022-11-16)
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      Plastic crystals are currently attracting interest because their solid-state caloric functionality could be used to tackle climate change in two critical areas: (i) more environmentally friendly cooling and heating driven ...
    • Colossal barocaloric effects near room temperature in plastic crystals of neopentylglycol 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Aznar Luque, Araceli; Barrio Casado, María del; Negrier, Philippe; Popescu, C.; Planes Vila, Antoni; Mañosa Carrera, Lluis; Stern Taulats, Enric; Avramenko, Alex; Mathur, N.D.; Moya Raposo, Xavier; Tamarit Mur, José Luis (2019-04-18)
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      There is currently great interest in replacing the harmful volatile hydrofluorocarbon fluids used in refrigeration and air-conditioning with solid materials that display magnetocaloric, electrocaloric or mechanocaloric ...
    • Colossal reversible barocaloric effects in layered hybrid perovskite (C10H21NH3)2MnCl4 under low pressure near room temperature 

      Li, Junning; Barrio Casado, María del; Dunstan, David; Dixey, Richard; Lou, Xiaojie; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Phillips, Anthony E.; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel (2021-11-10)
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      Barocaloric effects in a layered hybrid organic–inorganic compound, (C10H21NH3)2MnCl4, that are reversible and colossal under pressure changes below 0.1 GPa are reported. This barocaloric performance originates in a phase ...
    • Criticality in the slowed-down boiling crisis at zero gravity 

      Charignon, Thomas; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Chatain, Denis; Truskinovsky, Lev; Vives, Eduard; Beysens, Daniel; Nikolayev, Vadim (2015-05-12)
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      Boiling crisis is a transition between nucleate and film boiling. It occurs at a threshold value of the heat flux from the heater called CHF (critical heat flux). Usually, boiling crisis studies are hindered by the high ...
    • Curs 0: preparació per als estudis a l’EEBE 

      Tornil Sin, Sebastián; Botey Cumella, Muriel; Alarcón Jordán, Marta; Alcaraz Sendra, Olga; Ametller Congost, Lluís; Bruna Escuer, Pere; Camps Anaya, Germinal; Carmona Mejías, Ángeles; Claverol Aguas, Mercè; Crespo Artiaga, Daniel; Pablo Ribas, Joan de; Barrio Casado, María del; Valle Mendoza, Luis Javier del; Encinas Bachiller, Andrés Marcos; Farran Marsà, Adriana; Florido Pérez, Antonio; Gámez López, Antonio; García Senz, Domingo; Gibert Agulló, Oriol; Ikhouane, Fayçal; Jiménez Jiménez, María José; José Pont, Jordi; Linares Alegret, Manuel; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; López López, José; Macovez, Roberto; Mas Blesa, Albert; Mitjana Riera, Margarida; Muñoz Romero, José; Pardo Soto, Luis Carlos; Periago Oliver, M. Cristina; Pineda Soler, Eloi; Pradell Cara, Trinitat; Ruiz Ordóñez, Magda; Sala Cladellas, Glòria; Soler Turu, Lluís; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Vendrell Villafruela, Xavier; Zanuy Gomara, David (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Institut de Ciències de l'Educació, 2022-05)
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      Aquest article presenta el desenvolupament i primers resultats d'ús d'un conjunt de cursos virtuals que pretenen proporcionar uns coneixements inicials bàsics de Matemàtiques, Física i !ímica als estudiants que accedeixen ...
    • Giant and reversible barocaloric effect in trinuclear spin-crossover complex Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6 

      Romanini, Michela; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Barrio Casado, María del; Aznar Luque, Araceli; Gracia Condal, Adrià; Emre, Baris; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Planes Vila, Antoni; Manosa, L (2021-03)
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      A giant barocaloric effect (BCE) in a molecular material Fe3(bntrz)6(tcnset)6 (FBT) is reported, where bntrz = 4-(benzyl)-1,2,4-triazole and tcnset = 1,1,3,3-tetracyano-2-thioethylepropenide. The crystal structure of FBT ...
    • Giant and reversible inverse barocaloric effects near room temperature in ferromagnetic MnCoGeB0.03 

      Aznar Luque, Araceli; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Kim, Jiyeob; Stern Taulats, Enric; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Mathur, N.D.; Moya Raposo, Xavier (2019-09-13)
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      Hydrostatic pressure represents an inexpensive and practical method of driving caloric effects in brittle magnetocaloric materials, which display first-order magnetostructural phase transitions whose large latent heats are ...
    • Giant barocaloric effect in all-d-metal Heusler shape memory alloys 

      Aznar Luque, Araceli; Gracia Condal, Adrià; Planes Vila, Antoni; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Xiong, Wenxin; Cong, Daoyong; Popescu, C.; Mañosa Carrera, Lluis (American Physical Society (APS), 2019-04-16)
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      We have studied the barocaloric properties associated with the martensitic transition of a shape memory Heulser alloy Ni50Mn31.5Ti18.5 which is composed of all-d-metal elements. The composition of the sample has been ...
    • Giant barocaloric effects at low pressure in ferrielectric ammonium sulphate 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Stern Taulats, Enric; Barrio Casado, María del; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Crossley, Sam; Li, Wei; Pomjakushin, Vladimir; Planes Vila, Antoni; Mañosa Carrera, Lluis; Mathur, N.D.; Moya, Xavier (2015-11-01)
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      Caloric effects are currently under intense study due to the prospect of environment-friendly cooling applications. Most of the research is centred on large magnetocaloric effects and large electrocaloric effects, but the ...
    • Giant reversible barocaloric response of (MnNiSi)(1-x)(FeCoGe)(x) (x=0.39, 0.40, 0.41) 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Tapas, Samanta; Barrio Casado, María del; Dubenko, Igor; Ali, Naushad; Tamarit Mur, José Luis; Stadler, Shane (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2019-06-01)
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      MnNiSi-based alloys and isostructural systems have traditionally demonstrated impressive magnetocaloric properties near room temperature associated with a highly tunable first-order magnetostructural transition that involves ...
    • Ginzburg-Landau modelling of precursor nanoscale textures in ferroelastic materials 

      Planes, Antoni; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Castán, Teresa; Saxena, Avadh; Porta, Marcel (2012-11)
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      A Ginzburg–Landau free-energy model is proposed to study spatially inhomogeneous states that often occur as precursors of ferroelastic/martensitic transitions. Disorder is included in the harmonic coefficient of the ...
    • Glassy behavior in martensites: Interplay between elastic anisotropy and disorder in zero-field-cooling/field-cooling simulation experiments 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Castán, Teresa; Porta, Marcel; Planes, Antoni; Saxena, Avadh (2009-08-17)
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      We study the combined effect of elastic anisotropy and disorder on the microstructure and thermodynamic behavior in alloys undergoing a martensitic transformation. Within a Ginzburg-Landau free-energy framework we find the ...
    • Influence of elastic anisotropy on structural nanoscale textures 

      Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Castán, Teresa; Porta, Marcel; Planes, Antoni; Saxena, Avadh (2008-04-25)
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      We study the influence of elastic anisotropy on nanoscale precursor textures that exist in some shapememory alloys and show that tweed occurs in the limit of high elastic anisotropy while a nanocluster phase-separated state ...
    • Intermittent dynamics in externally driven ferroelastics and strain glasses 

      Porta, Marcel; Castán Vidal, Teresa; Lloveras Muntané, Pol Marcel; Saxena, Avadh; Planes Vila, Antoni (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2018-09-28)
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