Research Highlights

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Rare earth metals from environmental-friendly recycling and reduction processes

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

CMI trains students in critical materials research at Ames

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

Chemical laboratory automation accelerates process development

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

Next-generation technology demonstrated for REE separations

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory and Idaho National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

New family of materials hosting magnetic Fermi arcs

Fermi arcs were so far found only in superconducting cuprates and certain class of semimetals, where they span pairs of Weyl fermions of opposite chirality. We recently discovered Fermi arcs that emerge in a simple cubic compound, NdBi, when the sample orders antiferromagnetically.

Resistivity data and Fermi surface maps in paramagnetic and antiferromagnet states.

Weak itinerant magnetic phases of La2Ni7

This is the first successful measurement of the magnetic structures of this well studied compound whose chemical structure was solved circa 1969.

Coercivity exceeding 14 kOe for the CMI La-Nd based magnet

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

Ce-based magnet with (BH)max of 20+ MGOe

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

Database-driven method for discovering new ferromagnets

CMI researchers at Colorado School of Mines conducted the research for this highlight

A visual depiction of the overlapping categories in the database. Circles are not to scale.

Path toward tougher Ce-Co-Fe-Cu magnet

CMI researchers at Ames National Laboratory conducted the research for this highlight

$image showing typical fracture pattern (black) in Ce-Co-Fe-Cu (yellow shadow: Al phase).$