New class of strong magnets uses earth-abundant elements, avoids rare-earth metals

Georgetown University researchers have discovered a new class of strong magnets that do not rely on rare-earth or precious ...
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New ultra-strong magnets use common elements, ditch rare-earth metals

Permanent magnets sit at the heart of the green economy, from wind turbines and electric vehicles to smartphones and ...

Magnets produced at room temperature using lasers could one day produce better HDDs, faster non-silicon processors — and at 20nm, they are so thin that they could be used ...

Magnets tuned with lasers at room temperature could lead to faster hard drives and a new generation of computer chips.
Newsweek

China Now Has the World’s Strongest Magnet

A lab in China has produced the most powerful steady magnetic field in the world. The Steady High Magnetic Field Facility (SHMFF) in Hefei, China, recorded a field strength of 45.22 Tesla (T) on ...
NextBigFuture

Toyota has reduced the rare earth materials used in electric vehicle magnets by 50%

Toyota has developed the world’s first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet. Neodymium magnets are used in various types of motors such as the high-output motors found in electrified vehicles, use ...
FierceBiotech

Innovative Nanoparticle Purification System Uses Magnetic Fields

6 September 2011 - A team of Penn State University scientists has invented a new system that uses magnetism to purify hybrid nanoparticles -- structures that are composed of two or more kinds of ...