Entitled “Stable magnetostructural coupling with tunable magnetoresponsive effects in hexagonal ferromagnets”, the research article collaboratively written by the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Beihang University, was published inNature Communications, a Nature-branded journal.

The research demonstrates the feasibility of obtaining a stable magnetostructural coupling over a broad temperature window from 350 to 70 K, in combination with tunable magnetoresponsive effects, in a new material, MnNiGe:Fe alloys. The alloy, which exhibits a magnetic-field-induced martensitic transition from paramagnetic austenite to ferromagnetic martensite, is expected to be a multi-functional new material.