ERC Starting Grant · 2024
New Sustainable Fe-rich Magnet using a predictive Alloy and Microstructure Design Toolbox
Nd-Fe-B magnets are central to both green mobility and the generation of electricity from renewable resources. But the need to incorporate heavy rare earths like Tb and Dy –highly critical raw materials– to operate these magnets above 100 °C (required for electric vehicles and wind turbines) makes them very costly, environmentally damaging, and with a very fragile value chain. And despite four decades of effort, no practical alternative to Nd-Fe-B has been found. SmFe12-based compounds have superior intrinsic magnetic properties, actually surpassing those of benchmark Nd-Fe-B and, without the need for additional heavy rare earths. The challenge with SmFe12 is phase instability in the bulk…
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