Recent progress in high temperature permanent magnetic materials

Permanent magnetic materials capable of operating at high temperature up to 500℃ have wide potential applications in fields such as aeronautics, space, and electronic cars. SmCo alloys are candidates for high temperature applications, since they have large magnetocrystalline anisotropy field （6-30 T）, high Curie temperature （720-920℃）, and large energy product （〉200 kJ.m-3） at room temperature. However, the highest service temperature of commercial 2：17 type SmCo magnets is only 300℃, and many efforts have been devoted to develop novel high temperature permanent magnets. This review focuses on the development of three kinds of SmCo based magnets： 2：17 type SmCo magnets, nanocrystalline SmCo magnets, and nanocomposite SmCo magnets. The oxidation protection, including alloying and surface modification, of high temperature permanent magnets is discussed as well.

The Production Management Improvement Model of Small and Medium-sized Permanent Magnetic Materials Manufacturing Companies

An integrated production planning and control model based on MRPⅡand JIT is put forward through analyzing the characteristics of magnetic materials manufacturing companies. Master Production Schedule with limited capacity and operational plan in workshop level based on the basic data of flow chart are formulated by this model which applied JIT idea and based on customer order demand. Push production is adapted during execution phase combined with process flow cards. The model is helpful to reduce inventory,keep certain flexbility of production and improve continuity and equilibrium of manufacturing process.

Research progress of permanent ferrite magnet materials

Permanent ferrite magnet materials are extensively employed due to their exceptional magnetic properties and cost-effectiveness.The fast development in electromobile and household appliance industries contributes to a new progress in permanent ferrite materials.This paper reviews the deveolpement and progress of permanent ferrite magnet industry in recent years.The emergence of new raw material,the advancement of perparation methods and manufacturing techniques,and the potential applications of permanent ferrite materials are introduced and discussed.Specifically,nanocrystallization plays a crucial role in achieving high performance at a low cost and reducing reliance on rare earth resources,and therefore it could be a promising development trendency.

Neutron diffraction studies of permanent magnetic materials

Neutron diffraction technology as an advanced material research technique has special advantages in studying magnetic materials compared to the conventional techniques such as X-ray diffraction(XRD),scanning electron microscopy(SEM),transmission electron microscopy(TEM),and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS).In this review,the applications of neutron diffraction technology on permanent magnetic materials were briefly reviewed:(1)the determination of the crystal structure and magnetic structure of the typical permanent magnet material,(2)in situ neutron diffraction study of the crystal structure evolution of the permanent magnets,and(3)phase transition in permanent magnetic materials.

Editorial for rare metals,special issue on advanced permanent magnetic materials

Permanent magnetic materials(PMMs)are a kind of indispensable functional materials in modern society,which play crucial role in many applications such as computers,medical devices,and home appliances.Specially,with the rapid development of green technologies such as electric transportation,wind turbines,and precision motors,the need for high-quality PMMs has become strong and urgent.Meanwhile,the cutting-edge researches involving development and improvement of PMMs and related theories have drawn considerable attentions.This motives rare metals to have a special issue focusing on PMMs.

High permeability and bimodal resonance structure of flaky soft magnetic composite materials

We establish a theoretical bimodal model for the complex permeability of flaky soft magnetic composite materials to explain the variability of their initial permeability.The new model is motivated by finding the two natural resonance peaks to be inconsistent with the combination of the domain wall resonance and the natural resonance.In the derivation of the model,two relationships are explored:the first one is the relationship between the number of magnetic domains and the permeability,and the second one is the relationship between the natural resonance and the domain wall resonance.This reveals that the ball milling causes the number of magnetic domains to increase and the maximum initial permeability to exist after 10 h of ball milling.An experiment is conducted to demonstrate the reliability of the proposed model.The experimental results are in good agreement with the theoretical calculations.This new model is of great significance for studying the mechanism and applications of the resonance loss for soft magnetic composite materials in high frequency fields.

Magnetically responsive porous materials for efficient adsorption and desorption processes

Magnetically responsive porous materials possess unique properties in adsorption processes such as magneticinduced separation and heat generation in alternating magnetic fields, which greatly facilitates recycling procedures, favors long-term operation, and improves desorption rate, making conventional adsorption processes highly efficient. With increasing interest in magnetic adsorbents, great progress has been made in designing and understanding of magnetically responsive porous materials varying from monoliths to nanoscale particles used for adsorption including oil uptake, removal of hazardous substances from water, deep desulfurization of fuels, and CO2 capture in the past few years. Therefore, a review summarizing the advanced strategies of synthesizing these magnetically responsive adsorbents and the utilization of their magnetism in practical applications is highly desired. In this review, we give a comprehensive overview of this emerging field, highlighting the strategies of exquisitely incorporating magnetism to porous materials and subtly exploiting their magnetic responsiveness. Further innovations for fabricating or utilizing magnetic adsorbents are expected to be fueled. The potential opportunities and challenges are also discussed.

Study on Gd-Al-Dy System Magnetic Refrigeration Materials

d-Al-Dy system materials were prepared by the technique of powder sintering. Twolayers gradient function materials with compositions of (Gd_0.9Dy_0.1)_3Al_2 and Gd_3Al_2 respectively were studied. The results show that the Curie temperature (Tc) of the monolayer material decreases with the increment of Dy content. The Tc values of the twolayer gradient function material agree well with the layer numbers and corresponding to Dy content. For the Tc gradiently changed twolayers Gd-Al-Dy system material, its ΔSm changes smoothly with temperature. Therefore, the magnetic refrigeration is improved.

Influence of Composite Phosphate Inorganic Antibacterial Materials Containing Rare Earth on Activated Water Property of Ceramics

Antibacterial ceramic was prepared by doping enamel slurry with composite phosphate inorganic antibacterial materials containing rare earth (inorganic antibacterial additives), and then the mechanisms for activating water and improving seed germinative property were tested by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and the method of testing oxygen dissolved in activated water. Results show that the half peak width of (()^(17)O-NMR) for tap water activated by the antibacterial ceramic drops from 115.36 to 99.15 Hz, and oxygen concentrations of activated water increase by 20%, germinate rate of horsebean and earthnut seeds increases by 12.5% and 7.5%, respectively. Therefore antibacterial ceramic doped enamel slurry with inorganic antibacterial additives containing rare earth can reduce the volume of clusters of water molecules, improve activation of tap water, and promote plant seeds germinate.

Structural characteristics and magnetic properties of bulk nanocrystalline Fe_(84)Zr_2Nb_4B_(10) alloy prepared by mechanical alloying and spark plasma sintering consolidation

Magnetic properties of Fe84Zr2Nb4B10 sample were investigated. The sample was produced from nanocrystalline powders made by the mechanical alloying (MA) and consolidation using the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. Effects of milling time on phase transformation, structural characteristics, and magnetic properties of powders were examined by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and physical property measure system (PPMS), respectively. Results show that nanostructured α-Fe supersaturated solid solution is obtained in the final MAed products. The saturation magnetization (Ms) increased with increasing milling time and became constant at 130 h, but the coercivity (Hc) increased firstly and then decreased. The consolidated bulk sample exhibited a high density of 6.893 g·cm-3, there was no phase change during SPS process, and the saturation magnetization and susceptibility of the SPSed bulk sample improved in comparison with the milled powders. The variation of magnetic parameters can be explained by nano-scale effect and Herzer model.

Effect of Zr on Microstructure and Magnetic Properties of Nanocrystalline (Nd, Pr)FeB/α-Fe Composite Alloys

For nanophase (Nd, Pr)FeB/α-Fe composite alloys were prepared by melt spinning, the appreciable addition of Zr reduces their average grain size. Observed by atom force microscopy (AFM), the average grain diameter of crystallized ribbons on their free surface, reduces from 175 nm of Zr-free alloy to 79 nm of Zr-1at%, by about 55%. If the concentration exceeds 1%, the effects of Zr on fining grain size are evidently weakened. The average grain size on free surface of Zr-1.5at% is 72 nm. With the addition of 1at% Zn, the bonded magnets has the best combination of properties: B_r=0.675 T, H_(ci)=616 kA·m^(-1), (BH)_(max)=77 kJ·m^(-3). Below 1at%, the coarser grains lead to a lower magnetic property. Beyond 1at%, the layer of Zr-rich intergranular phase will thicken, which results in weakening of the exchange coupling among adjacent grains, and then causes degrading of magnetic properties of magnets.

Magnetic properties of NdFeB-coated rubberwood composites

Magnetic properties of composites prepared by coating lacquer containing neodymium iron boron （Nd-Fe-B） powders on rubberwood were characterized by vibrating sample magnetometry （VSM）, magnetic moment measurements, and attraction tests with an iron-core solenoid. The Nd-Fe-B powders were recycled from electronic wastes by the ball-milling technique. Varying the milling time from 20 to 300 min, the magnetic squareness and the coercive field of the Nd-Fe-B powders were at the minimum when the powders were milled for 130 rain. It followed that the coercive field of the magnetic wood composites was increased with the milling time increasing from 130 to 300 min. For the magnetic wood composites using Nd-Fe-B obtained from the same milling time, the magnetic squareness and the coercive field were rather insensitive to the variation of Nd-Fe-B concentration in coating lacquer from 0.43 to 1.00 g/cm3. By contrast, the magnetization and magnetic moment were increased with the Nd-Fe-B concentration increasing. Furthermore, the electrical current in the solenoid required for the attraction of the magnetic wood composites was exponentially reduced with the increase in the amount of Nd-Fe-B used in the coating.

Investigation of Thermal Losses in a Soft Magnetic Composite Using Multiphysics Modelling and Coupled Material Properties in an Induction Heating Cell

The complex interaction between material properties in an induction heating circuit was studied by multi physics simulation and by experimental verification in a full-scale laboratory heater. The work aims to illustrate the complexity of the system of interacting materials, but also to propose a method to verify properties of soft magnetic composite materials in an integrated system and to identify which properties are the most critical under different circumstances and load cases. Heat losses at different loads were primarily studied, from DC currents to AC currents at 15, 20 and 25 kHz, respectively. A FE model for magnetic simulation was correlated with a corresponding model for heat simulation. The numerical model, as well as the established input material data, could be verified through the experimental measurements. In this particular study, the current loss in the litz wire was the dominant heat source, thus making the thermal conductivity of the SMC the most important property in this material.

Magnetic Properties and Hyperfine Interactions in M-Type BaFe_(12-2x)Mo_(x)Zn_(x)O_(19) Hexaferrites

A series of M-Type barium hexaferrites with the general composition BaFe12-2xMoxZnxO19 were synthesized at 1100°C by a simple wet chemical mixture route. The properties of the prepared samples were examined by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, vibrating sample magnetometry, and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The diffraction patterns for all samples were found to agree well with the standard pattern of BaFe12O19 hexaferrite with no extraneous diffraction peaks. The products formed as well crystallized hexagonal platelet-like particles while the EDS measurements revealed the stoichiometric cationic ratios of the prepared samples. The spectral variations elucidated by Mössbauer spectroscopy were utilized to determine the different cation preferential site occupations as a function of x. Finally, the saturation magnetizations, magnetic anisotropies, and the anisotropy fields, determined from the magnetic measurements, showed consistency with the relative subspectral Mössbauer intensities and the single ion model for the anisotropy constant.

Design and Performance Analysis of Permanent Magnet Claw Pole Machine with Hybrid Cores

Permanent magnet claw pole machine(PMCPM) is a special kind of transverse flux permanent magnet machine. Compared with other electrical machines, it has the advantages of high torque density and high efficiency for high speed operation. However, because of its complex irregular structure, the manufacturing process using silicon sheets is complicated. Soft magnetic composite material(SMC) is manufactured by powder metallurgy technology, which can produce various shapes of stator core structures, so it is easier to produce various irregular shapes of the stator core. However, the raw SMC material is relatively expensive, and the mechanical strength of SMC is weak. In this paper, a PMCPM with hybrid cores is proposed. With the adoption of hybrid silicon sheet-SMC cores and amorphous alloy-SMC cores, the torque ability of PMCPM can be improved greatly and it can have higher efficiency for more wide operation frequency. Meanwhile, its mechanical strength has been improved and it can be designed for high torque direct drive applications as it is a modular machine. Furthermore, three methods are proposed to reduce the additional eddy current loss which resulted from the employment of hybrid cores in PMCPM.

Machine learning technique for prediction of magnetocaloric effect in La(Fe,Si/Al)_(13)-based materials

Data-mining techniques using machine learning are powerful and efficient for materials design, possessing great potential for discovering new materials with good characteristics. Here, this technique has been used on composition design for La（Fe,Si/Al）（13）-based materials, which are regarded as one of the most promising magnetic refrigerants in practice. Three prediction models are built by using a machine learning algorithm called gradient boosting regression tree（GBRT） to essentially find the correlation between the Curie temperature（TC）, maximum value of magnetic entropy change（（？SM）（max））,and chemical composition, all of which yield high accuracy in the prediction of TC and（？SM）（max）. The performance metric coefficient scores of determination（R^2） for the three models are 0.96, 0.87, and 0.91. These results suggest that all of the models are well-developed predictive models on the challenging issue of generalization ability for untrained data, which can not only provide us with suggestions for real experiments but also help us gain physical insights to find proper composition for further magnetic refrigeration applications.

Magnetic force improvement and parameter optimization for magnetic abrasive polishing of AZ31 magnesium alloy

The magnetic force acting on workpiece to be machined plays a significantly important role in magnetic abrasive polishing process.But in a case of polishing nonferrous materials,the strength of magnetic force is very low and it leads lower polishing efficiency.The magnesium alloy that has superior mechanical properties for industrial application such as a lightweight and high specific strength is one of the most famous nonferrous materials.An improving strategy of the magnetic force for the AZ31 magnesium alloy installed with a permanent magnet was proposed and experimental verification was carried out.For the proposed strategy,the effect of process parameters on the surface roughness of the AZ31 magnesium alloy was evaluated by a design of experimental method.

Dependence of Magnetic Properties of Rapidly Quenching (Nd,Pr)_x (FeCoZr)_(94-x)B_6 Bonded Magnets on Rare Earths Content

By using sub-overquenching and annealing method which has a wide processing window, (Nd, Pr), ( Fe-CoZr)(94-x)B-6(x = 12, 10.5, 10, 9) bonded magnets were prepared and the effect of rare earths content on magnetic properties was investigated. Being spun at sub-ove.quenching speed the as-spun ribbons consist of amorphous phases mixed with fine crystallites. After crystallization under optimum annealing conditions and bonded with 3.25% (mass fraction) epoxy, the magnets obtained the optimum magnetic properties. The rare earths content directly determines the magnetic properties. With the reduction of rare earths content, B-r increases but H-ci and (BH)(max) decrease. x = 10 is the critical value for the magnetic proper-ties change. Below this value, Br increases slowly meanwhile H-ci and (BH)(max) decrease strongly because alloy contains extra fractions of soft magnetic phase which are not coupled with the hard magnetic phase.. This experimental result is consistent with the calculated results using the model of volume fraction of soft magnetic phase coupled completely suggested.

Enhancing magnetic properties of anisotropic NdDyFeCoNbCuB powder by applying magnetic field at high temperature during hydrogen desorption

Anisotropic powder was prepared with precursor （NdDy）-（FeCoNbCu）-B sintered magnets by hydrogen decrepitation, desorption, and subsequent annealing treatment. The hydrogen desorption was performed in magnetic fields of 0, 1, 3, and 5 T. The orientation of tetragonal phase grains of the powder was evaluated from the hysteresis loops measured by extraction magnetometer. Residual hydrogen content of the powder was evaluated by thermal-magnetic analysis. The powder with Hcj, Br, and （BH）max of 1138 kA.m^-1, 1.029 T, and 172.5 kJ.m^-3, respectively, was achieved under the condition of the magnetic field of 3 T. Magnetic properties of the powder, especially, the remanence of the powder, are enhanced upon magnetic fields, which is due to better orientation of powder particles and less residual hydrogen in the powder resulted from the magnetic field during the hydrogen desorption process.

Structure and Magnetic Properties of LaCo_(13-X)M_X Intermetallic Compounds

LaCo_(13) has the highest 3d metal content ,of any known rare-earth intermetallic compounds,a1. 03MA/m saturation magnetization at room temperature and a high T_c (1318K). Unfortunately ,it is cubic ,lacking of the necessary anisotropy,thus diminishing the chance that it will be used as a permanent rnagneticmaterial. In this paper ,the structure and magnetic properties of LaCo_(13) Six (x=2 , 4 )and LaCo_(13) Ge_X(x=2,2. 5 ,3 ,4)intermetallic compounds have been studied. The crystal structure was found to be tetragonal whenx=4 for LaCo_(13-X) Six and x=3 , 4 for LaCo_(13-X) Gex ,but the difference between the lattice parameters a and c isvery small. In order to gain the tetragonal structure ,the annealing temperature of LaCo_(13-X) Ge_X must be con-trolled strictly. The magnetic rneasurement results show that the Curie temperatures of all these compoundsare high ,but the saturation magnetization at room-temperature decreases greatly with x increasing.