João Amaral obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Aveiro in December 2009, and has dedicated most of his scientific career to the study of magnetism and magnetic materials. His main focus of research during MSc. and PhD. was on magnetocaloric materials for magnetic refrigeration applications. Recent research interests include rare-earth free permanent magnets, by optimizing their composition and production through nanostructuring techniques, in a combined effort with the use of theoretical tools such as Density Functional Theory and Ising/Heisenberg models. He is currently an Assistant Researcher (Investigador FCT 2015 programme) at CICECO - Aveiro Institute of Materials and Physics Dept. at the University of Aveiro.
He was the main supervisor of two PhD. students (finished 2020 and 2021), and is currently the main supervisor of two others, and the co-supervisor of another. João has coordinated one FCT exploratory project, and is now the PI of one FCT exploratory project, an advanced computational research project, an FCT-DAAD bi-lateral project with partner TU Darmstadt Germany, and is one of the seven research line coordinators of the 19M€ Bosch Thermotechnology - University of Aveiro Smart Green Homes Project.
He has presented over 25 oral presentations (4 invited) in international conferences. João was an invited researcher at the EXSS group at Imperial College London, from 2013-2015. João has published over 85 peer-reviewed papers, with over 1200 citations (~1100 no self-citations), with an h-factor of 16. João was the invited Editor of Special Issues in AIP Advances (American Institue of Physics), Frontiers in Energy Research (Frontiers) and Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (Elsevier).
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Principal Investigator of the FCT Exploratory Research Project "Exploring nano-fabrication methods of high coercivity rare-earth free Si-Alnico permanent magnets" (EXPL/CTM-NAN/1614/2013) [more info at the FCT web page]
Task leader of the FCT SR&TD Project of consolidation of research skills and resources "Facing the challenges of characterizing novel thermal materials and processes (Heat@UA)" (RECI/CTM-CER/0336/2012).
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"Magnetovolume Effects in Heusler Compounds via First-Principles Calculations", J. N. Gonçalves, J. S. Amaral and V. S. Amaral, IEEE Trans. Magn. 50 1301104 (2014) [DOI].
"Thermodynamics of the 2D Ising model from a random path sampling method", J. S. Amaral, J. N. Gonçalves and V. S. Amaral, IEEE Trans. Magn. 50 1002204 (2014) [DOI].
"Disorder effects in giant magnetocaloric materials", J. S. Amaral and V. S. Amaral; Phys. Stat. Sol. A 211 971 (2014) [DOI].
"Strain induced enhanced ferromagnetic behavior in inhomogeneous low doped La0.95Sr0.05MnO3+delta", S. Das, J. S. Amaral, et al.; Appl. Phys. Lett. 102 112408 (2013) [DOI].
"On the Curie temperature dependency of the Magnetocaloric effect", J. H. Belo, J. S. Amaral, et al.; Appl. Phys. Lett. 100 242407 (2012) [DOI].
"Handling mixed-state magnetization data for magnetocaloric studies - a solution to achieve realistic entropy behaviour", S. Das, J. S. Amaral, V. S. Amaral; J. Phys. D Appl. Phys. 43 152002 (2010) [DOI].
"On estimating the magnetocaloric effect from magnetization measurements", J. S. Amaral, V. S. Amaral; J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 322 1552 (2009) [DOI].
"The effect of magnetic irreversibility on estimating the magnetocaloric effect from magnetization measurements", J. S. Amaral, V. S. Amaral; Appl. Phys. Lett. 94 042506 (2009) [DOI].
"The effect of chemical distribution on the magnetocaloric effect: A case study in second-order phase transition manganites", J. S. Amaral, P. B. Tavares, et al., Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids 354 (47-51), 5301-5303 (2008) [DOI].
"A mean-field scaling method for first- and second-order phase transition ferromagnets and its application in magnetocaloric studies", J. S. Amaral, N. J. O. Silva, V. S. Amaral; Appl. Phys. Lett. 91, 172503 (2007) [DOI].
"Magnetocaloric effect in Er and Eu-substituted ferromagnetic La-Sr Manganites", J. S. Amaral, M. S. Reis, et al.; J. Magn. Magn. Mat. 290 686 (2005) [DOI].
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Percolation processes and spin-reorientation of PrNi5-xCoxRocco, DL; Amaral, JS; Leitao, JV; Amaral, VS; Reis, MS; Fernandes, RP; Pereira, AM; Araujo, JP; Martins, NV; Tavares, PB; Coelho, AA 2009, PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 79, 1,
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Superferromagnetism in mechanically alloyed fcc Fe23Cu77 with bimodal cluster size distributionSilva, NJO; Amaral, JS; Amaral, VS; Costa, BFO; Le Caer, G 2009, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 21, 4,
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The effect of chemical distribution on the magnetocaloric effect: A case study in second-order phase transition manganitesAmaral, JS; Tavares, PB; Reis, MS; Araujo, JP; Mendonca, TM; Amaral, VS; Vieira, JM 2008, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 354, 47-51, 5301-5303.
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Influence of the Magnetic Anisotropy on the Magnetic Entropy Change of Ni2Mn(Ga, Bi) Memory Shape AlloyLeitao, JCV; Rocco, DL; Amaral, JS; Reis, MD; Amaral, VBS; Fernandes, RP; Martins, NV; Tavares, PB 2008, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MAGNETICS, 44, 11, 3036-3039.
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Phase Separation of La0.70-xErxSr0.30MnO3 and its Effect on Magnetic and Magnetocaloric PropertiesAmaral, JS; Reis, MS; Araujo, JP; Mendonaca, TM; Tavares, PB; Amaral, VS; Vieira, JM 2008, ADVANCED MATERIALS FORUM IV, 587-588, 338-+.
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Characterization of electrodeposited Ni and Ni80Fe20 nanowiresLeitao, DC; Sousa, CT; Ventura, J; Amaral, JS; Carpinteiro, F; Pirota, KR; Vazquez, M; Sousa, JB; Araujo, JP 2008, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 354, 47-51, 5241-5243.
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Studies of local fields in the Pr1-xCaxMnO3 system using perturbed angular correlation spectroscopyLopes, AML; Araujo, JP; Mendonca, TM; Amaral, JS; Pereira, AM; Tavares, PB; Amaral, VS; Correia, JG 2008, JOURNAL OF NON-CRYSTALLINE SOLIDS, 354, 47-51, 5315-5317.
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A mean-field scaling method for first- and second-order phase transition ferromagnets and its application in magnetocaloric studiesAmaral, JS; Silva, NJO; Amaral, VS 2007, APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 91, 17,
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Processing and phase separation of LSMO-based multiferroic composite ceramicsSong, GB; Amaral, JS; Amaral, VS; Kholkin, AL 2007, JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN CERAMIC SOCIETY, 27, 13-15, 3941-3945.
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Tuning of magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetic La-Sr manganites through Er and Eu dopingAmaral, JS; Reis, MS; Amaral, VS; Mendonca, TM; Araujo, JP; Tavares, PB; Vieira, JM 2006, ADVANCED MATERIALS FORUM III, PTS 1 AND 2, 514-516, 299-303.
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Magnetocaloric effect in Er- and Eu-substituted ferromagnetic La-Sr manganitesAmaral, JS; Reis, MS; Amaral, VS; Mendonca, TM; Araujo, JP; Sa, MA; Tavares, PB; Vieira, JM 2005, JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 290, 686-689.
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Charge-ordering contribution to the magnetic entropy change of (Pr, Ca)MnO3 manganitesReis, MS; Gomes, AM; Araujo, JP; Amaral, JS; Tavares, PB; Oliveira, IS; Amaral, VS 2005, JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 290, 697-699.
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Magnetoelastic coupling influence on the magnetocaloric effect in ferromagnetic materialsAmaral, VS; Amaral, JS 2004, JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM AND MAGNETIC MATERIALS, 272, 2104-2105.
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Magnetocaloric effect in manganites: Ferromagnetism and charge-ordering effectsReis, MS; Gomes, AM; Araujo, JP; Tavares, PB; Amaral, JS; Oliveira, IS; Amaral, VS 2004, ADVANCED MATERIALS FORUM II, 455-456, 148-152.
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Charge-ordering and magnetoelastic coupling effects on the magnetocaloric properties of manganitesReis, MS; Gomes, AM; Araujo, JP; Tavares, PB; Amaral, JS; Oliveira, IS; Amaral, VS 2004, ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA A, 105, 1-2, 163-171.
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Synthesis and Characterisation of Magnetoelectric Ceramic Composites based on M-type Strontium and Barium Hexagonal Ferrites and Barium TitanateMedeiros, MSA; Amaral, JS; Pullar, RC In Jotania, RB; Mahmood, SH (Eds.), MAGNETIC OXIDES AND COMPOSITES 2018, 1-48. MILLERSVILLE, PA 17551 USA: MATERIALS RESEARCH FORUM LLC.
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The Mean-Field Theory in the Study of Ferromagnets and the Magnetocaloric EffectAmaral J S , Das S ,Amaral V S In Juan Carlos Moreno-Piraján (Eds.), Thermodynamics - Systems in Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium 2011, Rijeka: InTech.
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