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K3Li3Gd7(BO3)9: A New Gadolinium-Rich Orthoborate for Cryogenic Magnetic Cooling.

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Magnetic cooling technology based on magnetocaloric effect (MCE) has attracted great interest in obtaining extreme low temperature, e. g. for space exploration. Here we grew a new gadolinium-rich orthoborate K3Li3Gd7(BO3)9 (1) as a promising cryogenic magnetic coolant. It exhibits complicated three dimensional framework constructed from BO3 groups and gadolinium-oxygen chains. The Gd-O chain consists of two types of clusters of Gd3O20 and Gd3O19 interconncetion by Gd(4)O8 polyhydron. Thanks to its high gadolinium concentration, a large -Sm for 1 was obtained as 56.6 J kg-1 K-1 at 2 K and H = 7 T, much larger than that of commercial benchmark Gd3Ga5O12 (GGG) crystal (38.4 J kg-1 K-1), suggesting it to be an excellent MCE material.

Year of Publication
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2018
Journal
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Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Date Published
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2018
ISSN Number
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0947-6539
DOI
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10.1002/chem.201705669
Short Title
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Chemistry
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