Electric motors or wind turbines are driven by powerful permanent magnets. The most powerful ones are based on the rare earth elements neodymium and dysprosium. In future, a new process route will ...

If necessity is the mother of invention, science and technology must be due soon to give birth to new materials and methods for making powerful permanent magnets. The magnets are crucial to an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Minnesota-based company has opened its commercial pilot plant to ramp up rare earth-free permanent magnet production. Niron ...

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Niron Magnetics, the world’s only producer of powerful rare-earth-free permanent magnets, today announced the grand opening of its commercial pilot plant in Minneapolis.

Scientists fabricated isotropic, near-net-shape, neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) bonded magnets at DOE’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility at ORNL using the Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) ...

Researchers built extremely small, thermally stable magnetic particles with magnetic properties comparable to some rare earth magnets, the strongest permanent magnets ever created. These tiny magnets ...

Researchers have proposed a simplified design for nuclear-fusion reactors, based on powerful permanent magnets. Fusion reactors are still at the prototype stage. They confine plasma inside a ...

India’s foreign ministry recently announced that Indian companies now have licenses to import rare-earth magnets from China. Rare earth magnets, derived from a group of 17 elements that are essential ...

Magnetic couplings transmit high torque with no physical contact, and they disengage smoothly when load gets too high. Generally speaking, the couplings use magnetic power in three different ways; ...

“By all the traditional metrics of single-molecule magnets, they’re the best,” says Nicholas Chilton of the new molecules. Chilton, who’s based at the University of Manchester, collaborated on the ...