“…The exchanged entropy exhibits a maximum at about 38 K reaching 1.5 and 2.9 J kg À1 K À1 in the 0e1 T and 0e2 T magnetic field ranges, respectively. These performance are far below the giant EMC rareearth based materials such as Gd 5 Si 2 Ge 2 [21] or La(Fe,Si) 13 [22] but compares well with Gd-based compounds recently reported for their magnetocaloric properties such as GdAl 2 [23], GdScX (X ¼ Si, Ge) [24], Gd 7 Pd 3 [25], GdCoNi [26], GdCr 2 Si 2 [27], Gd 3 Co 29 Ge 4 B 10 [28], Gd 6 Mn 23 [29], Gd 3 NiSi 2 [30], GdCo 3 B 2 [31] or GdNi 4 Si [32], the weight magnetic entropy change being slightly larger in our aluminide than all these compounds but the last three ones, despite a much smaller rare earth atomic ratio.…”