Assessing rapid solidification processing to produce magnetocaloric RFeSi alloys (R= Tb, Dy) for natural gas liquefaction

The authors acknowledge the support received from: (a) Laboratorio Nacional de Nanociencias y Nanotecnología (LINAN, IPICyT); (b) CONAHCYT, Mexico (under project CF-2023-I-2143); (c) Spanish MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and ERDF, UE (project number: PID2022-138256NB-C21; and (d) Principado de Asturias (IDI/2018/000185), Spain. The technical support received from M.Sc. B.A. Rivera-Escoto, M.Sc. A.I. Peña Maldonado and Dr. I.G. Becerril-Juárez are gratefully acknowledged. M. Güel Rodriguez and J. Zamora thank CONAHCyT-México for supporting the Master Science studies and postdoctoral position, respectively, at IPICyT. J.L. Sánchez Llamazares acknowledges the support received from the European Union- NextGenerationEU, Ministerio de Universidades, and Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, in the framework of the Maria Zambrano program of the University of Oviedo (Uniovi), Spain (Reference: MU-21- UP2021-030 71741542). C.F. Sánchez-Valdés is grateful to UACJ for supporting his sabbatical research stay at Uniovi.