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Advances and Frontiers in Magnetostrictive Materials

A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart Materials".

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Interests: smart polymers and composite materials; sensor technology; vibration energy harvesting; soft composite materials; measurement science and technology; magnetic materials
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Dear Colleagues,

Magnetostriction is an old subject that was created about 177 years ago.

However, a search of suitable keywords using the Google Scholar engine immediately shows that this subject is still flourishing.

The reason is obviously the growing demand for novel materials possessing large magnetostriction in different application areas. Here the research goes into different directions, ranging from alloys to polymer-based composite materials.  Also, the vast range of sensor and actuator applications of magnetostrictive materials is currently a subject of active research. The examples include guided-wave transducers for nondestructive evaluation and structural health monitoring, magnetoelectric magnetic field sensors, electric current sensors, tactile sensors for robotic applications, giant magnetostrictive actuators, and so on. This list is not complete, because of the limited space. 

You are cordially invited to submit contributions to this Special Issue , which aims to publish highly rated manuscripts presenting recent developments and applications of a broad range of magnetostrictive materials including material development, design and fabrication of sensor systems, theoretical considerations, numerical simulations and experimental results. Papers exploring the research frontiers of magnetostrictive materials and their applications are explicitly welcome. The potential readers (and authors) of this Special Issue will be material scientists, engineers, physicists and chemists.

Topics include but are not limited to the keywords listed as follows:

  • Giant magnetostriction
  • Magnetomechanical effects
  • Magnetostrictive materials in sensor technology
  • Magnetostrictive materials in actuator technologies
  • Magnetostrictive materials in energy harvesting
  • Magnetostrictive polymer composites
  • Magnetostrictive materials in magnetoelectricity
  • Non-Joulian magnetostriction
  • Self-sensing with magnetostrictive materials
  • Straintronics
  • Technology of magnetostrictive materials

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Shamonin
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Keywords

  • Giant magnetostriction
  • Magnetomechanical effects
  • Magnetostrictive materials in sensor technology
  • Magnetostrictive materials in actuator technologies
  • Magnetostrictive materials in energy harvesting
  • Magnetostrictive polymer composites
  • Magnetostrictive materials in magnetoelectricity
  • Non-Joulian magnetostriction
  • Self-sensing with magnetostrictive materials
  • Straintronics
  • Technology of magnetostrictive materials

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Research on Dynamic and Mechanical Properties of Magnetoactive Elastomers with High Permeability Magnetic Filling Agent at Complex Magneto-Temperature Exposure
by Maria Vasilyeva, Dmitriy Nagornov and Georgiy Orlov
Materials 2021, 14(9), 2376; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma14092376 - 3 May 2021
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We consider magnetically active elastomer as a potentially applicable material for manufacturing a working channel of a magnetic pump unit. During the study, the samples were exposed to a magnetic field, a temperature field, and their combination to assess the change in the [...] Read more.
We consider magnetically active elastomer as a potentially applicable material for manufacturing a working channel of a magnetic pump unit. During the study, the samples were exposed to a magnetic field, a temperature field, and their combination to assess the change in the elastic-strength properties of the final material. For the preparation of samples, high permeability magnetic fillers of various sizes were used in the concentration range of 50–70%. Samples were made with an isotropic and an anisotropic structure. Studies have shown that when using a filler with a relatively coarse fraction, the material has more stable dynamic and mechanical characteristics: the tensile strength of the sample increases by an average of 38%. With the combined effect of magnetic and temperature fields on the material, its elasticity and strength increase by an average of 30% in comparison with the material without external influence. Based on the results obtained, the composition and structural organization of the material, which has the best complex of elastic strength characteristics, has been substantiated. For the manufacture of a pumping unit tube, it is preferable to use an isotropic magnetoactive elastomer with a coarser filler content of about 60%. Full article
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Giant Extensional Strain of Magnetoactive Elastomeric Cylinders in Uniform Magnetic Fields
by Dmitry V. Saveliev, Inna A. Belyaeva, Dmitry V. Chashin, Leonid Y. Fetisov, Dirk Romeis, Wolfgang Kettl, Elena Yu. Kramarenko, Marina Saphiannikova, Gennady V. Stepanov and Mikhail Shamonin
Materials 2020, 13(15), 3297; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13153297 - 24 Jul 2020
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Elongations of magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) under ascending–descending uniform magnetic fields were studied experimentally using a laboratory apparatus specifically designed to measure large extensional strains (up to 20%) in compliant MAEs. In the literature, such a phenomenon is usually denoted as giant magnetostriction. The [...] Read more.
Elongations of magnetoactive elastomers (MAEs) under ascending–descending uniform magnetic fields were studied experimentally using a laboratory apparatus specifically designed to measure large extensional strains (up to 20%) in compliant MAEs. In the literature, such a phenomenon is usually denoted as giant magnetostriction. The synthesized cylindrical MAE samples were based on polydimethylsiloxane matrices filled with micrometer-sized particles of carbonyl iron. The impact of both the macroscopic shape factor of the samples and their magneto-mechanical characteristics were evaluated. For this purpose, the aspect ratio of the MAE cylindrical samples, the concentration of magnetic particles in MAEs and the effective shear modulus were systematically varied. It was shown that the magnetically induced elongation of MAE cylinders in the maximum magnetic field of about 400 kA/m, applied along the cylinder axis, grew with the increasing aspect ratio. The effect of the sample composition is discussed in terms of magnetic filler rearrangements in magnetic fields and the observed experimental tendencies are rationalized by simple theoretical estimates. The obtained results can be used for the design of new smart materials with magnetic-field-controlled deformation properties, e.g., for soft robotics. Full article
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Fabrication, Modeling and Characterization of Magnetostrictive Short Fiber Composites
by Zhenjin Wang, Kotaro Mori, Kenya Nakajima and Fumio Narita
Materials 2020, 13(7), 1494; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma13071494 - 25 Mar 2020
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Magnetostrictive materials have a wide variety of applications due to their great capability as sensors and energy-harvesting devices. However, their brittleness inhibits their applications as magnetostrictive devices. Recently, we developed a continuous magnetostrictive Fe-Co-fiber-embedded epoxy matrix composite to increase the flexibility of the [...] Read more.
Magnetostrictive materials have a wide variety of applications due to their great capability as sensors and energy-harvesting devices. However, their brittleness inhibits their applications as magnetostrictive devices. Recently, we developed a continuous magnetostrictive Fe-Co-fiber-embedded epoxy matrix composite to increase the flexibility of the material. In this study, we fabricated random magnetostrictive Fe-Co short fiber/epoxy composite sheets. It was found that the discontinuous Fe-Co fiber composite sheet has the magnetostrictive properties along the orientation parallel to the length of the sheet. Finite element computations were also carried out using a coupled magneto-mechanical model, for the representative volume element (RVE) of unidirectional aligned magnetostrictive short fiber composites. A simple model of two-dimensional, randomly oriented, magnetostrictive short fiber composites was then proposed and the effective piezomagnetic coefficient was determined. It was shown that the present model is very accurate yet relatively simple to predict the piezomagnetic coefficient of magnetostrictive short fiber composites. This magnetostrictive composite sheet is expected to be used as a flexible smart material. Full article
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Anisotropic Magnetoelectric Effect in a Planar Heterostructure Comprising Piezoelectric Ceramics and Magnetostrictive Fibrous Composite
by Yuri Fetisov, Dmitri Chashin, Dmitri Saveliev, Leonid Fetisov and Mikhail Shamonin
Materials 2019, 12(19), 3228; https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12193228 - 2 Oct 2019
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The direct magnetoelectric (ME) effect is investigated in a planar structure comprising mechanically coupled layers of a magnetostrictive fibrous composite (MFC) and a piezoelectric ceramics (lead zirconate titanate, PZT). The MFC is an array of Ni-wires with a diameter of 200 μm that [...] Read more.
The direct magnetoelectric (ME) effect is investigated in a planar structure comprising mechanically coupled layers of a magnetostrictive fibrous composite (MFC) and a piezoelectric ceramics (lead zirconate titanate, PZT). The MFC is an array of Ni-wires with a diameter of 200 μm that are aligned parallel to each other in a single layer. The wires are separated by a distance of 250 or 500 μm and fixed in a polyamide matrix. The structure was placed in a tangential constant field H and was excited by an alternating magnetic field h parallel to H, while the voltage generated by the PZT layer was measured. The resulting field dependences of the magnetization M(H) and the magnetostriction λ(H) were determined by the orientation of the field H in the plane of the structure and the distance between the Ni-wires. The ME coupling coefficient of the structure decreased from 4.8 to 0.25 V/A when the orientation of H was changed from parallel to perpendicular to Ni-wires. With an increase in the excitation field amplitude h, a nonlinear ME effect in the output voltage, namely frequency doubling, was observed. The frequency and field dependences of the efficiency of the ME transduction in the MFC-piezoelectric heterostructure are well described by the existing theory. Full article
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