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Victorino Franco

Victorino Franco

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Materials Science

D-Index
55
Citations
14387
World Ranking
8474
National Ranking
151

Overview

Victorino Franco is affiliated with the University of Seville in Spain and specializes in Materials Science, with a focus on electronic, optical, and magnetic materials. Their research output includes significant contributions to subfields such as materials chemistry, mechanical engineering, condensed matter physics, and biomedical engineering.

Their work concentrates on several main topics, including magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, shape memory alloy transformations, magnetic properties of alloys, Heusler alloys' electronic and magnetic properties, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, high entropy alloys studies, and multiferroics and related materials.

Victorino Franco has authored multiple recent papers, some of which are:

  • "Current perspective in magnetocaloric materials research," 2023, Journal of Applied Physics
  • "Increased magnetocaloric response of FeMnNiGeSi high-entropy alloys," 2021, Acta Materialia
  • "Pushing the limits of magnetocaloric high-entropy alloys," 2021, APL Materials
  • "Perspectives and Energy Applications of Magnetocaloric, Pyromagnetic, Electrocaloric, and Pyroelectric Materials," 2024, Advanced Energy Materials
  • "First- and second-order phase transitions in RE6Co2Ga (RE = Ho, Dy or Gd) cryogenic magnetocaloric materials," 2021, Science China Materials

The frequent coauthors of Victorino Franco include Jia Yan Law, Luis M. Moreno-Ramírez, Álvaro Díaz-García, Rabin Mahat, and P. LeClair. Collaborations with these researchers have contributed extensively to the body of work surrounding magnetocaloric materials and related fields.

Publication venues where Victorino Franco's research is commonly published comprise the Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Acta Materialia, Science China Materials, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, and SSRN Electronic Journal.

In addition to journal articles, Victorino Franco has a book titled Educação e Multidisciplinaridade: Encontros de saberes, published in 2024 by Editora Schreiben eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Magnetocaloric effect: From materials research to refrigeration devices

    V. Franco;J.S. Blázquez;J.J. Ipus;J.Y. Law

  • The Magnetocaloric Effect and Magnetic Refrigeration Near Room Temperature: Materials and Models

    V. Franco;J.S. Blázquez;B. Ingale;A. Conde

  • Field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in materials with a second order phase transition: A master curve for the magnetic entropy change

    V. Franco;J. S. Blázquez;A. Conde

  • Scaling laws for the magnetocaloric effect in second order phase transitions: From physics to applications for the characterization of materials

    V. Franco;A. Conde

  • A universal curve for the magnetocaloric effect: an analysis based on scaling relations

    V Franco;A Conde;J M Romero-Enrique;J S Blázquez

  • A quantitative criterion for determining the order of magnetic phase transitions using the magnetocaloric effect

    Jia Yan Law;Victorino Franco;Luis Miguel Moreno-Ramírez;Alejandro Conde

  • Universal behavior for magnetic entropy change in magnetocaloric materials: An analysis on the nature of phase transitions

    Claudia Marcela Bonilla;Julia Herrero-Albillos;Fernando Bartolomé;Luis Miguel García

  • Tricritical point and critical exponents of La0.7Ca0.3−xSrxMnO3 (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.25) single crystals

    M.H. Phan;V. Franco;V. Franco;N.S. Bingham;H. Srikanth

  • A phenomenological fitting curve for the magnetocaloric effect of materials with a second-order phase transition

    Q. Y. Dong;H. W. Zhang;J. R. Sun;B. G. Shen

  • The magnetocaloric effect in materials with a second order phase transition: Are TC and Tpeak necessarily coincident?

    V. Franco;A. Conde;M. D. Kuz’min;J. M. Romero-Enrique

  • Chemoselective Hydrogenation Catalysts: Pt on Mesostructured CeO2 Nanoparticles Embedded within Ultrathin Layers of SiO2 Binder

    Patricia Concepcion;Avelino Corma;Joaquin Silvestre-Albero;Victor Franco

  • The influence of Co addition on the magnetocaloric effect of Nanoperm-type amorphous alloys

    V. Franco;J. S. Blázquez;A. Conde

  • Scaling analysis of the magnetocaloric effect in Gd5Si2Ge1.9X0.1 (X=Al, Cu, Ga, Mn, Fe, Co)

    V. Franco;A. Conde;Virgil Provenzano;Robert D. Shull

  • Field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect in Gd and (Er1−xDyx)Al2: Does a universal curve exist?

    V. Franco;A. Conde;V. K. Pecharsky;K. A. Gschneidner

  • A Finemet-type alloy as a low-cost candidate for high-temperature magnetic refrigeration

    V. Franco;J. S. Blázquez;C. F. Conde;A. Conde

  • The influence of a minority magnetic phase on the field dependence of the magnetocaloric effect

    V. Franco;R. Caballero-Flores;A. Conde;Q.Y. Dong

  • Influence of Co and Ni addition on the magnetocaloric effect in Fe88−2xCoxNixZr7B4Cu1 soft magnetic amorphous alloys

    R. Caballero-Flores;V. Franco;A. Conde;K. E. Knipling

  • The magnetocaloric effect in soft magnetic amorphous alloys

    V. Franco;J. S. Blázquez;M. Millán;J. M. Borrego

  • A constant magnetocaloric response in FeMoCuB amorphous alloys with different Fe∕B ratios

    V. Franco;C. F. Conde;J. S. Blázquez;A. Conde

  • Mechanical and magnetocaloric properties of Gd-based amorphous microwires fabricated by melt-extraction

    F.X. Qin;N.S. Bingham;H. Wang;H.X. Peng

  • Optimization of the refrigerant capacity in multiphase magnetocaloric materials

    R. Caballero-Flores;V. Franco;A. Conde;K. E. Knipling

Frequent Co-Authors

A. Conde
A. Conde University of Seville
Oliver Gutfleisch
Oliver Gutfleisch Technical University of Darmstadt
Konstantin P. Skokov
Konstantin P. Skokov Technical University of Darmstadt
Manh-Huong Phan
Manh-Huong Phan University of South Florida
Sergio Lozano-Perez
Sergio Lozano-Perez University of Oxford
Raju V. Ramanujan
Raju V. Ramanujan Nanyang Technological University
Hariharan Srikanth
Hariharan Srikanth University of South Florida
George S. Nolas
George S. Nolas University of South Florida
Hua-Xin Peng
Hua-Xin Peng University of Bristol
Iosif Galanakis
Iosif Galanakis University of Patras

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