Developing Substitutes

As CMI begins its 13th year of operation in 2025, the CMI focus area Developing Substitutes will conduct research around the themes of Materials Discovery and Maturation, Energy-Efficient Rare Earth Metals Production and Novel Processing. For questions or more information, please contact cmidirector@ameslab.gov.

News & Highlights

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Room temperature M-H curve (2nd quadrant) for magnet made from the NdFeB powder (R07) prepared by Ca-RD route,

Research Highlight

High coercivity rare-earth-free Fe5C2 nanorods

Research Projects

CMI Project 2.1.1 Novel chemistry and processes to enable nanostructures for permanent magnets

CMI Project 2.1.2 Accelerated discovery and development of low-cost, low-criticality competitor to the Nd2Fe14B-based magnets

CMI Project 2.1.3 Systems level modeling and prototyping

CMI Project 2.2.5 Bypassing electrolysis: one-step calciothermic route to NdFeB powders from Nd2O3

CMI Project 2.2.6 Energy-efficient metallothermic reduction of rare earths

CMI Project 2.2.8 A novel ‘continuous’ reactor for molten salt electrowinning of neodymium metal enabling low-cost and scalable domestic metal production

Developing Substitutes

News & Highlights

Bypassing electrolysis: one-step calciothermic route from Nd2O3 to Nd2Fe14B

44 MG-Oe hot-roll-processed magnet

CMI early career researcher hired by CMI Team member

CMI leaders, technologies win R&D 100 Awards