Developing Substitutes

The CMI focus area Developing Substitutes researches magnets with reduced rare earth content. Researchers leading projects in Developing Substitutes are located at Ames Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Easy and hard axes magnetization for single crystals of the new Ce/Sm/Co/Cu material and their extrapolations to crossing record-high Ha = ~30 T. The upper insert - general appearance of the single crystals, the lower insert - literature data, Ha for single crystal of SmCo5 (Strnat, 1988).

Research Highlight

Scientists look to meteorites for inspiration to achieve critical element-free permanent magnet

Research Projects

CMI Project 2.1.11: Additive manufacturing of polymer based bonded magnets

Parans Paranthaman at Oak Ridge National Laboratory leads the CMI Project "Additive manufacturing of polymer based bonded magnets"

magnet made with additive manufacturing techniques

CMI Project 2.1.12: High-performance, critical-element-free permanent magnets

Vitalij Pecharsky at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "High-performance, critical-element-free permanent magnets"

CMI Project 2.1.13: Finite element modeling of magnetic and electrochemical systems

Ikenna Nlebedim at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI Project "Finite element modeling of magnetic and electrochemical systems"

CMI Project 2.1.14: Reduced rare earth content high performance magnets

Andriy Palasyuk at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI Project "Reduced rare earth content high performance magnets"

CMI Project 2.1.15: Heterogeneous Sm-Co and Nd-Fe-B magnets

Baozhi Cui at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "Heterogeneous Sm-Co and Nd-Fe-B magnets"

CMI Project 2.1.19: Predicting magnetic anisotropy

Durga Paudyal at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "Predicting magnetic anisotropy"

CMI Project 2.1.20: Application targeted magnetic materials

Jun Cui at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "Application targeted magnetic materials"

CMI Project 2.1.22: SmFeN as a cost-effective high performance magnet

Vitalij Pecharsky at Ames Laboratory leads the CMI project "SmFeN as a cost-effective high performance magnet"

CMI Project 2.1.23: Enhancing HDDR powders

Michael Kesler at Oak Ridge National Laboratory leads the CMI project "Enhancing HDDR powders"

CMI Project 2.3.11: Al-REE alloy development for advanced manufacturing (AL-REE ADAM)

Hunter Henderson at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory leads the CMI project Al-REE alloy development for advanced manufacturing (AL-REE ADAM)