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SCIENCE CHINA Physics, Mechanics Astronomy • Article • March 2014 Vol.57 No.3: 437–441 doi: 10.1007/s11433-013-5383-z Structure, magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effects of Fe Mn Co Ni alloys 50 15x x 35 * ZHONG XiChun , TIAN HuaCun, TANG PengFei, LIU ZhongWu, ZHENG ZhiGang ZENG DeChang School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China Received November 22, 2013; accepted December 3, 2013; published online January 22, 2014 Fe Mn Co Ni (x =0, 1, 3, 5, 7) alloys were prepared by arc melting under purified argon atmosphere. The ingots were 50 15x x 35 homogenized at 930°C for 90 h followed by water quenching. The crystal structure, magnetic properties and magnetocaloric effects of the alloys were studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and MPMS-7-type SQUID. The results show that all samples still maintained a single -(Fe, Ni)-type phase structure. With the increase of the content of Co, the Curie temperatures of these alloys increased and exhibited a second-order magnetic transition from ferromagnetic (FM) to paramagnetic (PM) state near Curie temperature. The maximum magnetic entropy change and the relativ