Although Nature has always been a common source of inspiration in the development of artificial materials, only recently has the ability of man-made materials to produce complex three-dimensional (3D) ...
Since magnetic-field-induced strain was reported for NiMnGa (refs 1, 5), many other ferromagnetic shape-memory alloys, such as FePd (refs 2, 6, 7), FePt (ref. 8), NiCoGa (refs 9, 10), NiCoAl (refs ...