“…Another route in magnetostriction investigations was the study of binary, iron-based alloys, such as NiFe, SiFe, and CoFe [24,25], which evolved until the development of specific Iron-Gallium and Iron-Aluminum binary alloys (known as Galfenol and Alfenol, respectively) with noticeable magnetostrictive coupling (≈300 ppm for Galfenol) and improved mechanical properties that allowed a better workability and strength [26,27], with respect to Terfenol-D and similar rare earth-based compounds. While in principle, all of them are suitable for actuation or sensing scopes, Terfenol was mostly employed for actuation in rod or prismatic geometries, due to its very large deformations and forces and limited workability and brittleness [28].…”