The development of efficient, safe and ecofriendly technologies is crucial to deal with the growing concerns faced by the modern society including energy resources scarcity, climate change and global warming. In this context, magnetic materials would play a key role in the design of a wide range of devices in relation with renewable energies, energy conversion and electrical grids. For example, the implementation of performant hard and soft magnetic materials will provide better energy efficiency with major economic and environmental benefits for energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, transformers, hydroelectricity, and electric/ hybrid vehicles. On the other hand, magnetic cooling which uses magnetocaloric materials as refrigerants is currently considered as one of the most promising alternatives to standard relaxation-compression methods. It enables us to fully eliminate the harmful fluorinated gases that are widely employed by standard refrigeration techniques while offering higher thermodynamic efficiencies. However, the discovery of stable materials with outstanding magnetocaloric effects that can be obtained under low magnetic fields over a wider temperature range is crucial for the upscaling of this emergent technology towards broader commercialization. Also, the development of new designs allowing simplified, efficient, and compact systems would make magnetic cooling more attractive.
Under this workshop, we invite researchers and engineers to submit contributions in relation with magnetic materials and their applications. The covered topics include, but are not limited to, growth techniques, crystalline structure, electronic structure, theoretical aspects, functional properties, and devices.
Team
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Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Properties of R(Fe0.25Co0.75)2Hx Compounds (R=Ho, Er) Prof. Daniel Fruchart Institut Néel, CNRS, Grenoble France. |
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Nanoscience Approach for Creating Unusual Magnetic and Magnetocaloric Features Prof. Mohamed Balli International University of Rabat, Morocco. |
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The Green Rare Earth Magnet Dr. Sophie Rivoirard Product & Technology Director of MagREEsource, France. |