Magnetic materials articles within Nature Materials

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• Article | 18 February 2019

  Electric field modulation of magnetic exchange in molecular helices

  A modulation of the magnetic exchange interaction using an electric field, in the absence of atomic displacement and not relying on spin–orbit coupling, is reported.

  • Maria Fittipaldi
  • , Alberto Cini
  •  & Roberta Sessoli

• Article | 10 September 2018

  A multicaloric cooling cycle that exploits thermal hysteresis

  Magnetocaloric effects can be used for refrigeration, but application uptake is limited due to large amounts of magnetic material used. Here, a cooling cycle is shown that uses thermal hysteresis, significantly reducing magnetic material quantity.

  • Tino Gottschall
  • , Adrià Gràcia-Condal
  •  & Oliver Gutfleisch

• Article | 12 June 2017

  Phagocytosis-inspired behaviour in synthetic protocell communities of compartmentalized colloidal objects

  Droplets with magnetite membranes are designed to engulf in a phagocytosis-inspired manner smaller colloidal objects, demonstrating a route for sequential cargo delivery and release followed by internalized reactions.

  • Laura Rodríguez-Arco
  • , Mei Li
  •  & Stephen Mann

• News & Views | 22 January 2016

  A candidate magnetoreceptor

  A protein complex found to align with the direction of a magnetic field could be a key piece in the puzzle of how animals detect magnetic fields.

  • Kenneth J. Lohmann

• Article | 26 October 2014

  Giant barocaloric effect enhanced by the frustration of the antiferromagnetic phase in Mn₃GaN

  Caloric effects in magnetic materials are promising for many applications. A significant barocaloric effect is observed in Mn₃GaN and shown to be promoted by frustration arising from its antiferromagnetism.

  • Daichi Matsunami
  • , Asaya Fujita
  •  & Mika Kano

• News & Views | 15 December 2011

  Electric toggling of magnets

  Electric-field-induced toggle switching of nanoscale thin-film magnets signifies an important step towards energy-efficient magnetic data storage.

  • Evgeny Y. Tsymbal

• Letter | 13 November 2011

  Magnetoelastic metamaterials

  Metamaterials are widely studied for their optical properties offering applications such as perfect lenses or cloaking. As is now shown, the interaction between the individual elements of metamaterials can also be used to design magnetoelastic metamaterials, which are able to change their structure in response to light.

  • Mikhail Lapine
  • , Ilya V. Shadrivov
  •  & Yuri S. Kivshar