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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Permanent magnets sit at the heart of the green economy, from wind turbines and electric vehicles to smartphones and industrial robots. For decades, the strongest versions have depended on rare-earth ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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; ...