Advances in magnetic shape memory materials : special topic volume with invited peer reviewed papers only

 Content: Preface --
 Composition-Dependent Basics of Smart Heusler Materials from First- Principles Calculations --
 Magnetic Anisotropy of Ferromagnetic Martensites --
 Entropy Changes in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys --
 Stress-Temperature Phase Diagram of Ni₂MnGa and Structural Relations between its Constituent Phases --
 Neutron Diffraction Studies of Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys --
 Influence of Long-Range Atomic Order on the Structural and Magnetic Properties of Ni-Mn-Ga Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys --
 Crystal Structures of Modulated Martensitic Phases of FSM Heusler Alloys --
 Magnetic Microstructure Analysis of Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys and Related Compounds --
 Polycrystalline Ni-Mn-Ga as a Potential Material for Magnetically Driven Actuators --
 Metamagnetic Shape Memory Effect and Magnetic Properties of Ni-Mn Based Heusler Alloys --
 Reverse Magnetostructural Transitions by Co and In Doping NiMnGa Alloys: Structural, Magnetic, and Magnetoelastic Properties --
 Magnetic Phase Diagram of the Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Ni₂MnGa[subscript 1-x]Cu[subscript x] --
 Effects of Surface Pinning, Locking and Adaption of Twins on the Performance of Magnetic Shape-Memory Alloys --
 Long-Term Cyclic Loading of 10M Ni-Mn-Ga Alloys --
 Surface Study of Ni₂MnGa(100).