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Gadolinium

Curie point at 293 K; the reference magnetocaloric and thermomagnetic material.

Atlas record: 2 claims reference this material — 1 demonstrated and 1 established.

Explorerelations · sources · cite

conditions: solid · ferromagnet required
2claims0enumerated routes0routes with complete-composition evidence0candidate routes not searched3cited sources

Relations

observed in · 2
Thermomagnetic (Curie-point) transition—observed in→Gadoliniumdemonstrated
Magnetocaloric effect—observed in→Gadoliniumestablished

Cited sources · 3

  1. [1]
    A. Waske, et al.. Energy harvesting near room temperature using a thermomagnetic generator with a pretzel-like magnetic flux topology (2019)
    Nature Energy 4, 68–74 · doi:10.1038/s41560-018-0306-x · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  2. [2]
    V. K. Pecharsky, K. A. Gschneidner Jr.. Giant magnetocaloric effect in Gd5(Si2Ge2) (1997)
    Physical Review Letters 78, 4494 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.4494 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record
  3. [3]
    K. A. Gschneidner Jr, V. K. Pecharsky, A. O. Tsokol. Recent developments in magnetocaloric materials (2005)
    Reports on Progress in Physics 68, 1479–1539 · doi:10.1088/0034-4885/68/6/R04 · crossref ✓ 2026-09-19 · record

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Physical Transformation Atlas (2026). entity material:gadolinium: Gadolinium. Dataset revision rbfbfcbb70e57 (hash of the canonical data). https://physical-transformation-atlas.wldud5192.workers.dev/e/material/gadolinium

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