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.
News & Highlights
Research Highlight
Potential Alnico-surpassing gap magnet
Research Highlight
Improving alnico magnets using thermomagnetic processing
Research Highlight
New CMI capability: rare earth magnet powder synthesis in high magnetic fields
Research Highlight
Finite Element Model for mechanical properties of SmCo5
Research Highlight
Magnetically aligned electrodes predicted to increase lithium-ion battery capacity by as much as 25%
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"
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"