Tunable negative thermal expansion in
Abstract
Materials with tunable negative thermal expansion (NTE) are highly demanded in various functional devices.
Keywords
INTRODUCTION
Most materials exhibit positive thermal expansion (PTE). However, various functional devices require precisely tailored thermal expansion or even zero thermal expansion (ZTE), such as high-precision optical mirrors, fiber reflective gratings, and printed circuit boards[1]. Therefore, materials with negative thermal expansion (NTE) have attracted increasing attention. This unusual volumetric effect can be used to regulate the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and produce ZTE composites by mixing them with PTE materials. So far, a few kinds of materials have been reported as potential NTE material candidates, such as ZrW2O8[2], antiperovskite manganese nitrides[3], AgB(CN)4[4], MM′X compounds[5], β-Cu1.8Zn0.2V2O7[6],
La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds with a cubic NaZn13-type structure (space group Fm3c) have been widely studied because of their giant magnetocaloric effect (MCE) and the application potential in magnetic refrigeration[10-12]. The large MCE of La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds primarily originates from their itinerant electron metamagnetic (IEM) transition, that is, a field-induced first-order magnetic transition from the paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) states[13]. Furthermore, La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds have large magnetovolume effect (MVE); namely, the magnetic transition is accompanied by a distinct NTE behavior around the Curie temperature (TC)[14]. Therefore, their isotropic and remarkable NTE suggests that La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds could be excellent NTE materials for applications.
The NTE properties of La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds have been reported in recent years. For example, the LaFe10.5Co1.0Si1.5 compound exhibits a large NTE in a wide operation temperature window of 110 K, and its linear NTE coefficient reaches -26.1 × 10-6 K-1[15]. However, previous research primarily focused on tuning the NTE properties of the La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds by composition manipulation[16-19], while neglecting their poor mechanical properties. The intrinsic brittleness of La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds will result in difficulty in shaping and machining them. Furthermore, their large NTE tends to cause fractures, causing materials and devices to fail[20]. These shortcomings significantly limit the application potential of
Figure 1. (A) BSE images of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different particle sizes; (B) porosity of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different particle sizes; (C) temperature dependence of linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) for La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different particle sizes; (D) NTE temperature range and average linear NTE coefficient of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different particle sizes. BSE: Backscattered electron; NTE: negative thermal expansion.
In this work, the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound with strong first-order magnetic transition is chosen as an origin NTE material (hereafter refers to La-Fe-Si). Epoxy resin-bonded La-Fe-Si composites were successfully fabricated. The NTE of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites is manipulated by controlling the La-Fe-Si particle size and epoxy resin content. Reducing the particle size will weaken the first-order magnetic transition of the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound, thereby decreasing the NTE of the composites. Tailoring the resin content is a more effective way to tune the NTE of La-Fe-Si/resin composites. The NTE of La-Fe-Si/resin composites gradually decreases as the resin content increases. The La-Fe-Si/resin composite with 20 wt.% resin exhibits ZTE behavior in a wide temperature range. Importantly, the La-Fe-Si/resin composites exhibit high mechanical properties and can maintain mechanical integrity and functional stability after 1000 thermal cycles. As a result, La-Fe-Si/resin composites with tunable NTE, excellent mechanical properties, and long-term cycle stability present great application potential as NTE materials.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Sample preparation
La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 ingot was prepared by induction melting. Then, the ingot was processed into ribbons using the melt-spinning method. The ribbons were subsequently sealed in a quartz tube with an argon atmosphere and annealed at 1393 K for 20 h, followed by ice water quenching. A schematic illustration of La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 powder preparation is shown in Supplementary Figure 2A. The phase composition of the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound is primarily 1:13 phase, accompanied by a very small amount of the α-Fe phase and La-rich phase [Supplementary Figure 2B and C]. The annealed La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 ribbons were broken and ground into powders by hand using an agate mortar. Then, the powders were separated into different groups according to their particle sizes using sieves as follows: 280-450 μm, 200-280 μm, 150-200 μm, 75-150 μm, 40-75 μm and < 10 μm. The particle size distribution of these powders was then re-checked by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). As shown in Supplementary Figure 3, the size distribution of these particles obtained from the SEM micrographs of these La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 powders is 397.9, 278.0, 180.4, 96.6, 45.2 and 3.6 μm, respectively (hereafter refers to P398, P278, P180, P97, P45, and P4). The La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 powders were mixed with multiple-component epoxy resin composed of E51 epoxy resin and T31 Mannich amide. The resin-mixed powders were pressed into cylinders of Φ10 mm under a pressure of 900 MPa and then solidified at room temperature for five days. Note that the resin must be precured before pressing for the composites with high resin content to prevent the resin from flowing out of the mold during pressing. The density of these La-Fe-Si/resin composites was estimated using the Archimedes method[12].
Figure 2. (A) Images of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents; (B) BSE images of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents; (C) elemental mapping of Fe and C for La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents. BSE: Backscattered electron.
Figure 3. 3D rendering images of each phase for (A) Resin3; (B) Resin20; and (C) Resin80 composites. From left to right: the overlapping configuration, La-Fe-Si phase, epoxy resin and pores; (D) volume fraction of La-Fe-Si particle, epoxy resin and pore.
Sample characterization
The temperature-variation X-ray diffraction (XRD) measurement was performed by using Cu Kα radiation. The Rietveld refinement was performed on these XRD patterns to identify the phase composition and their crystal structure using the GSAS/EXPGUI software[22]. The microstructure was recorded by SEM, and elemental analysis was performed using energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) equipped with SEM. The three-dimensional (3D) spatial distribution of the different phases of the samples was revealed by using high-resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT). The segmentation and quantitative analysis of the 3D structural images were performed using the Avizo software[23]. Compressive strength was measured by using cylindrical samples of Φ10 × 10 mm by a universal testing machine under ambient temperature. Magnetic measurements were performed using a vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM, Quantum Design, VersaLab). The differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements were carried out using DSC 6220 with a ramp rate of 10 K/min. The linear thermal expansion (∆L/L) was measured using a thermo-dilatometer with a heating rate of 2 K/min.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Tunable NTE via adjusting particle size
The NTE of La(Fe, Si)13 compounds is closely related to the magnetic transition. The thermal and magnetic hysteresis decrease gradually with reducing particle size [Supplementary Figures 4 and 5], which implies the weakening of the first-order magnetic transition. The reduction in thermal and magnetic hysteresis can be ascribed to the partially-removed internal strain and grain boundaries as well as the significantly increased specific surface areas of the samples [Supplementary Figures for detailed analysis]. The weakening of first-order magnetic transition can also be confirmed by the Arrott plots [Supplementary Figure 6]. Moreover, the magnetic entropy change (ΔSM) decreases gradually with reducing particle size owing to the weakening of the first-order magnetic transition [Supplementary Figure 7]. The maximum -ΔSM value of the ribbon samples can reach as high as 21.5 J/kg K under a low magnetic field change of 0-1 T, and the La-Fe-Si powders with an average particle size of ~4 μm can still exhibit a giant magnetic entropy change of 10.1 J/kg K. This implies the strong first-order magnetic transition of the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound. The strong first-order magnetic transition enables the La-Fe-Si compound to exhibit excellent NTE properties. The average CTE of the La-Fe-Si compound obtained from the temperature-variation XRD can reach -76.4 × 10-6 K-1 in the NTE region from 100 K to 180 K [Supplementary Figure 8].
Figure 4. (A) Compressive stress-strain curves for Resin3, Resin20 and Resin80 composites; (B) different shapes machined from the Resin20 composite; (C) temperature dependence of thermal conductivity for Resin3 composite.
Figure 5. (A) Temperature dependence of linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) for La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents; (B) NTE temperature range as a function of resin content; Average linear NTE coefficient as a function of resin content in the (C) NTE temperature range and (D) magnetic transition temperature range. NTE: Negative thermal expansion.
Figure 6. (A) Schematic illustration of thermal cycles; (B) surface morphology (upper) and SEM images (lower) of the Resin3 composite before and after 1000 thermal cycles; (C) compressive stress-strain curves of the Resin3 composite before and after cycle stability test; (D) temperature dependence of linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) for the Resin3 composite at the selected thermal cycles. SEM: Scanning electron microscopy.
To optimize the NTE properties of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites, 3 wt.% epoxy resin was mixed with the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 powders of different particle sizes to produce a series of composites. The backscattered electron (BSE) image of a fabricated La-Fe-Si/resin composite with 3 wt.% resin and the corresponding elemental mapping of La, Ce, Fe, Mn, Si and C elements are shown in
Figure 1C presents the temperature dependence of the linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites with 3 wt.% resin content with different particle sizes (the reference temperature is 200 K). The linear thermal expansion increases as the temperature decreases, which indicates the NTE of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites. Furthermore, the NTE property varies distinctly with the reduction in particle size. The NTE temperature region (∆TNTE) in which the composites exhibit NTE behavior and the average linear coefficient of thermal expansion (
Microstructure of La-Fe-Si/resin composites
Owing to the excellent NTE performance of the P180 composite, the P180 powder is chosen to further optimize La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents to better tune their NTE and to obtain ZTE composites. The proportions of the epoxy resin are 3, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 and 80 wt.%, respectively (hereafter refers to Resin3, Resin10, Resin20, Resin30, Resin40, Resin50, Resin60, Resin70, and Resin80). The La-Fe-Si/resin composites are composed of La-Fe-Si phase and resin, and no impurity phase is observed, indicating that the pressing process does not cause the instability of the La-Fe-Si phase
Figure 2B shows the BSE images of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents. The gray areas represent the La-Fe-Si phase, and the black areas represent the epoxy resin and pores. La-Fe-Si particles have a homogeneous particle size, and the epoxy resin is primarily distributed among La-Fe-Si particles because of high fluidity. Moreover, La-Fe-Si particles are uniformly distributed in the epoxy resin matrix without segregation. When the resin content reaches 80 wt.%, the resin will become the matrix of La-Fe-Si/resin composites, whereas La-Fe-Si particles will be the additive phase. Therefore, the La-Fe-Si/resin composite is presumed to exhibit positive thermal expansion.
Since both the epoxy resin and pores are represented as black areas in the obtained SEM images, to further distinguish the epoxy resin and pores, the elemental mapping of Fe and C in La-Fe-Si/resin composites is performed and shown in Figure 2C. The orange areas (Fe element) represent La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 particles, the green areas (C element) represent the epoxy resin, and the black areas represent the pores. A large number of pores can be observed in the Resin10 composite, and these pores are primarily distributed in the particle boundaries. With an increase in resin content, the number of pores gradually decreases and eventually disappears when the resin content is greater than 30 wt.%. For La-Fe-Si/resin composites, increasing epoxy resin content will fill more pores during compressing, thereby decreasing porosity and improving densification. Such a compact structure improves mechanical and NTE properties. Moreover, during the SEM sample preparation, sanding may cause La-Fe-Si particles to fall off the La-Fe-Si/resin composites, leading to the appearance of pores in the La-Fe-Si/resin composites. With increasing resin content, the disappearance of pores further indicates the enhancement of the bonding force between the epoxy resin and La-Fe-Si particles.
High-resolution X-ray CT is performed to further investigate the internal spatial structure of La-Fe-Si/resin composites. Figure 3A-C show the 3D rendered volume images of each component for Resin3, Resin20 and Resin80 composites, respectively. A central region with a volume of 1000 × 1000 × 1000 μm3 of the sample was chosen for 3D rendering and analysis. The blue parts represent La-Fe-Si particles, the red parts represent the epoxy resin, and the green parts represent pores. The leftmost full 3D structural images in Figure 3A-C show that the resin (red region) tends to be among La-Fe-Si particles (blue region) and dispersive pores (green region). The stereo structure of La-Fe-Si particles, resin and pores reveals the homogeneity of the spatial structure. For the Resin3 composite, the resin exists in an irregular shape due to high fluidity. With increasing resin content, the resin will wrap La-Fe-Si particles and further fill the pores. According to the quantitative analysis of the Avizo software, the volume fraction of each component in the composites is obtained and shown in Figure 3D. The volume fractions of the epoxy resin in Resin3, Resin20 and Resin80 composites are 15.54 %, 56.55 % and 95.57 %, respectively. Since the epoxy resin exhibits PTE behavior, an increase in resin fraction would lower the NTE of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites, exhibiting ZTE behavior at a certain resin content. In addition, further resin addition will fill the pores, improving densification; for example, the porosity of the Resin3, Resin20 and Resin80 composites is determined to be 3.63%, 1.16% and 0.02%, respectively. The denser the structure of La-Fe-Si/resin composites, the better their mechanical properties.
High mechanical properties
Figure 4A presents the compressive stress-strain curves of the Resin3, Resin20, and Resin80 composites. Note that the stress-strain curve of the pure La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound cannot be obtained because it is in the form of ribbons. According to previous reports, the compressive stress-strain curves of bulk La-Fe-Si compounds drop sharply without further plastic deformation[27], indicating the brittleness of these compounds. Nevertheless, the Resin3 composite exhibits a short yield stage before reaching the maximum compressive strength [Figure 4A], which is due to the densification of the porous architecture under stress. With increasing resin content, more pores can be filled, thereby reinforcing the binding force between La-Fe-Si particles. As a result, the compressive strength increases gradually with increasing resin content. The Resin80 composite exhibits compressive strength of 205 MPa, which is 75% higher than that of the Resin3 composite. The enhanced mechanical properties guarantee the integration of materials when La-Fe-Si/resin composites are used as NTE materials. Moreover, the obtained Resin20 composite can be easily machined into different shapes for practical applications, such as thin plates, strips, and rods, as shown in Figure 4B. In addition, Figure 4C shows the temperature dependence of thermal conductivity for Resin3 composite. It can be found that the Resin3 composite shows relatively high thermal conductivity, which can be comparable with some pure La(Fe, Si)13-based compounds[15,28]. This facilitates the practical application of the composites as NTE materials.
Tunable NTE via adjusting resin contents
Figure 5A presents the temperature dependence of linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) for La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents. With increasing resin contents, La-Fe-Si/resin composites exhibit a distinct decrease in NTE, which is more remarkable than that tuned by particle size as observed in Figure 1C. The ΔL/L below TC gradually changes from a large positive value to a large negative value, which confirms our speculation that the resin with PTE will compensate for the NTE of La-Fe-Si particles, thereby gradually tuning La-Fe-Si/resin composites from NTE materials to PTE materials. This result also proves that adjusting the resin content is more effective for adjusting the NTE of La-Fe-Si/resin composites than adjusting the La-Fe-Si particle size. Note that the Resin20 composite exhibits ZTE behavior in a wide temperature range below TC. The
Figure 5B shows the NTE temperature region as a function of the resin content. The wide NTE temperature region from 118 K to 186 K for the Resin3 composite indicates that the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound not only exhibits a significant NTE property around TC, but also exhibits NTE behavior in a wide temperature range below TC. This NTE below TC can be confirmed by the variation of ∆a/a as shown in Supplementary Figure 8C. This fact also suggests that there still exists strong magnetoelastic coupling below TC for the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound. With increasing resin content, the lower limit temperature of NTE increases largely, whereas the upper limit temperature gradually decreases. In particular, the NTE temperature range decreases significantly from 68 K for the Resin3 composite to 19 K for the Resin30 composite. The significant increase in the lower limit temperature suggests that the NTE below TC caused by the magnetoelastic coupling is compensated by the PTE of the resin. However, the NTE originating from the magnetic transition is significantly stronger; thus, the NTE temperature region remains until the resin content even reaches 80 wt.%.
Figure 5C shows the average NTE coefficient of La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents in their respective NTE temperature ranges (ΔTNTE). The average NTE coefficient of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites increases and then decreases with increasing resin content. Similarly, an increase in resin content also has two opposite effects on the average NTE coefficient. First, increasing the resin content can improve the densification of composites, thereby improving NTE; second, the PTE of the epoxy resin will compensate for the NTE of La-Fe-Si particles, decreasing NTE. This result suggests that the first effect plays a predominant role if the resin content is lower than 30 wt.%, whereas the second effect becomes more prominent if the resin content is higher than 30 wt.%. Furthermore, the average NTE coefficient of the La-Fe-Si/resin composites with different resin contents in the magnetic transition temperature range (ΔTMT: 165-180 K) is determined to further investigate the variation of NTE during the phase transition, as shown in Figure 5D.
Long-term cycle stability
The strong NTE behavior, particularly the remarkable NTE during the magnetic transition, can cause microcracks in La-Fe-Si/resin composites during their cycling service due to the repeated shrinkage and expansion, leading to material failure. Therefore, long-term cycle stability is a vital prerequisite for the applications of NTE materials. Here, the Resin3 composite is chosen to conduct the thermal cycle test around the transition temperature. As shown in Figure 6A, the Resin3 composite is thermally cycled in liquid nitrogen and hot water (~358 K) to investigate its cycle stability. Figure 6B shows that the Resin3 composite still maintains decent integrity after 1000 thermal cycles, which means that it has excellent mechanical properties. Figure 6B shows the surface morphology obtained by optical microscopy and SEM before and after 1000 thermal cycles. After undergoing 1000 thermal cycles, the Resin3 composite maintains its original macro- and micro-structure without significant differences and does not exhibit any visible cracks, which suggests that La-Fe-Si/resin composites have long-term cycle stability. In addition, Figure 6C compares the compressive stress-strain curves of the Resin3 composite before and after the thermal cycle test. It can be found that the compressive strength of the Resin3 composite after cycle stability test is 119.9 MPa, which is close to that of Resin3 composite before cycle stability test (116.6 MPa). Therefore, the mechanical properties of the composites do not show significant changes after the long-term cycle stability test.
Figure 6D shows the temperature dependence of the linear thermal expansion (ΔL/L) for the Resin3 composite at some selected cycles. Note that the transition temperature increases after the first cycle. For La(Fe, Si)13 compounds, the hydrostatic pressure can change the curve of the free energy E(M, T) by the renormalization effect of spin fluctuations, thereby decreasing TC[32]. Moreover, the internal constraints can also reduce the TC[33]. Since La-Fe-Si/resin composites are prepared by compaction, the residual stress after the compaction and constraints from the surrounding epoxy resin will decrease the transition temperature of the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound. During the thermal cycle, the cyclic MVE will drive La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 particles to shrink and expand repeatedly. This process will gradually release the residual stress and surrounding constraints, increasing the transition temperature. After the 100th cycle, the release of residual stress and constraints is completed; thus, the transition temperature will no longer change. In addition, the NTE performance of the Resin3 composite undergoing different thermal cycles does not exhibit obvious variations, which proves its robust functional stability. These results strongly suggest that the fabricated La-Fe-Si/resin composites are highly suitable for practical applications as NTE materials.
CONCLUSIONS
In summary, epoxy resin-bonded La-Fe-Si/resin composites are fabricated, and their NTE is tuned by controlling the La-Fe-Si particle size and epoxy resin content. The reduction in particle size weakens the first-order magnetic transition of the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound, which reduces NTE and the thermal/magnetic hysteresis. Meanwhile, the reduction in particle size first decreases porosity, which increases NTE until the average particle size of 180 μm. Then, the NTE decreases significantly with a further reduction in particle size caused by the weakening of the first-order magnetic transition and the increase in porosity. Furthermore, tailoring the epoxy resin content can tune the NTE of La-Fe-Si/resin composites more effectively. An increase in resin content also has two opposite effects on NTE. The La-Fe-Si/resin composite with 80 wt.% resin still exhibits significant NTE during the magnetic transition, which suggests that the La0.7Ce0.3Fe11.51Mn0.09Si1.4 compound has strong NTE properties because of its magnetoelastic coupling effect. Moreover, the La-Fe-Si/resin composite with 20 wt.% resin exhibits ZTE behavior in a wide temperature range. Further microstructure analysis indicates that increasing the resin content can fill more pores, leading to a compact structure and enhancing the mechanical properties significantly. La-Fe-Si/resin composites can still maintain their mechanical integrity and excellent NTE properties after 1000 thermal cycles, which proves their excellent cycle stability. Consequently, with the excellent mechanical properties, durable cycle stability, and tunable NTE properties, the fabricated epoxy resin-bonded La-Fe-Si/resin composites could be an attractive candidate for NTE materials.
DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributionsConceived the idea: Zhang H
Performed the experiments and data analysis: Zhou H, Liu Y, Xia M, Yu Z, Chen H, Qiao K, Cong J
Provided the technical support: Huang R, Chen B, Taskaev SV, Chu K
Wrote the manuscript: Zhou H, Zhang H
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Financial support and sponsorshipThis work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos.: 52171169, 52101210, 51971160, and 52142305); the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant No.: 2021YFB3501204); the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and the Youth Teacher International Exchange & Growth Program (Grant Nos.: FRF-GF-20-08B and QNXM20210014).
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