“…In contrast, the ER curves of 51.23, 51.54, and 51.75 specimens show no apparent change due to MT, whereas Table 1 Analytical compositions, characteristic temperatures, latent heat, and entropy change of the prepared alloys Ni content (at.%) a T p and Q M-P are determined using high-resolution DSC that of the 51.23 sample has a faint hysteresis at around 180 K. Although the origin of this small hysteresis is not clear, no MT could be detected by other techniques. These results suggest that these three specimens kept the P phase condition down to 4 K. It is seen that the ER curves started to increase at around 300 K with decreasing temperature, becoming almost constant in the temperature region below *100 K. Such a negative temperature dependence of the ER curve has been reported in some previous papers on not only Ni-rich Ti-Ni alloys, but also Ti-Ni-Fe (more than 6 at.% Fe) alloys [6,8,9], which is discussed in relation to the concept of strain glass by Ren et al [3]. All the determined characteristic temperatures, T 0 , T Ms , and T Af , are listed in Table 1 and plotted in Fig.…”