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Xubo Liu

Scientist

Division of Critical Materials

Email: liux@ameslab.gov
Office: 37 Wilhelm
Websites:
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Credentials

Areas of Expertise

  • Synthesis, Processing and Characterization of Metallic Materials
  • Multi-Scale Simulation on Magnetic Materials, Micromagnetic Simulation, Atomic Scale Simulation.

Research

Research Projects

  • CMI Project 3.3.13: Recovery of critical materials from dilute electronic waste streams

Research Interests

  • Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

  • Crystallography and Chemical Bond

Publications

X. B. Liu M. S. Kesler Z. P. Tener M. J. Kramer M. A. McGuire I. C. Nlebedim

Correlation of coercivity, microstructure, and surface defects in HDDR-processed Nd-Fe-B powders for bonded magnet applications

AIP Advances, 2026
Xubo Liu Ikenna C Nlebedim

Chemical Bonding, Phase Stability and Magnetic Property in Sm2Fe17X3 (X=H, C, N): A First-Principles Perspective

Computational Condensed Matter, 2026
Xubo Liu Kinjal Gandha Ikenna C Nlebedim Mariappan Parans Paranthaman

Recycling of additively printed anisotropic Nd-Fe-B bonded magnets

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2024
X B Liu I C Nlebedim

Robustness of magnetocrystalline anisotropy and coercivity in Fe–Co–B

Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024
X. B. Liu I. C. Nlebedim

Segregation of Al and its effect on coercivity in Nd-Fe-B

AIP Advances, 2024

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