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Shape-memory alloys

Combinatorial high jinks

Nature Materials volume 2, pages 141–143 (2003)Cite this article

A new strategy for mapping the mechanical and magnetic properties of thin films has been used to discover ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys with previously unknown compositions. The results provide new insight into an underlying composition–structure–property relationship of the Ni–Mn–Ga system.

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Figure 1: The novel screening techniques used by Takeuchi et al.4 to study the magnetic and shape-memory properties of the Ni–Mn–Ga composition spreads.

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