Current progress and future challenges in rare-earth-free permanent magnets

J Cui, M Kramer, L Zhou, F Liu, A Gabay… - Acta Materialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Permanent magnets (PM) are critical components for electric motors and power generators.
Key properties of permanent magnets, especially coercivity and remanent magnetization …

Manganese-based permanent magnet materials

T Keller, I Baker - Progress in Materials Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Manganese-based permanent magnetic materials have become an area of significant
research activity in recent years as a potential alternative to permanent magnets based on …

rare-earth-free permanent magnets: The effects of twinning versus dislocations in Mn-Al magnets

Y Jia, Y Wu, S Zhao, S Zuo, KP Skokov, O Gutfleisch… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
Defects of various kinds strongly affect local magnetic anisotropy and thus play a crucial role
in coercivity in high-performance permanent magnets. In particular, in rare-earth-free …

Life Cycle Assessment of Rare Earth Elements-Free Permanent Magnet Alternatives: Sintered Ferrite and Mn–Al–C

A Amato, A Becci, A Bollero… - ACS Sustainable …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Permanent magnets are fundamental constituents in key sectors such as energy and
transport, but also robotics, automatization, medicine, etc. High-performance magnets are …

Production of net-shape Mn-Al permanent magnets by electron beam melting

IA Radulov, VV Popov Jr, A Koptyug, F Maccari… - Additive …, 2019 - Elsevier
The main goal of this work is the adoption of additive manufacturing for the production of
inexpensive rare-earth free MnAl-based permanent magnets. The use of more advanced …

Structural, microstructural and magnetic evolution in cryo milled carbon doped MnAl

H Fang, J Cedervall, D Hedlund, S Shafeie… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The low cost, rare earth free τ-phase of MnAl has high potential to partially replace bonded
Nd2Fe14B rare earth permanent magnets. However, the τ-phase is metastable and it is …

Relation between solidification microstructure and coercivity in MnAl permanent-magnet alloys

Y Jia, Y Wu, S Zhao, J Wang, C Jiang - Intermetallics, 2018 - Elsevier
MnAl alloys are considered to be an important candidate to plug the gap between Nd-Fe-B
magnets and ferrites, and their microstructure is closely related with the magnetic properties …

Recent developments in nanostructured permanent magnet materials and their processing methods

R Madugundo, NVR Rao, AM Schönhöbel… - Magnetic …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this chapter, we are presenting the developments in permanent magnetic materials and
their processing techniques. We discuss different alloy systems, rare-earth (RE) Nd-Fe-B …

Fabrication of bulk τ MnAl–C magnets by hot-pressing from ε-phase gas-atomized and milled powder

C Muñoz-Rodríguez, L Feng, EM Palmero, T Mix… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Isotropic nanocrystalline MnAlC particles with quasi-spherical shape were synthesized by
gas-atomization being afterwards milled for a short time of 60 s. Gas-atomized and milled …

In situ Observation of Phase Transformation in MnAl(C) Magnetic Materials

PZ Si, HD Qian, CJ Choi, J Park, S Han, HL Ge… - Materials, 2017 - mdpi.com
The phase transformation in two modes, including both displacive and massive growth of τ-
phase from ε-MnAl (C), was observed by in situ transmission electron microscopy. The exact …