Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers working ...
The electric vehicle revolution has created market forces to drive all sorts of innovations. Battery technology has ...
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New ultra-strong magnets use common elements, ditch rare-earth metals
Permanent magnets sit at the heart of the green economy, from wind turbines and electric vehicles to smartphones and industrial robots. For decades, the strongest versions have depended on rare-earth ...
For more than a decade we have been reporting on a radical idea from the University of Birmingham that makes recycling rare ...
Did you know GM invented the domestic, affordable permanent magnet? Before this neodymium-iron-boron magnet came along in 1984, electric motors, generators, audio speakers, hard-disk drives, and the ...
Mkango Resources and the University of Birmingham have commissioned a commercial plant for recycling rare earth magnets. The ...
Magnet fisher James Kane cradles a shiny, four-pound magnetic disk: a stainless-steel shell housing an alloy of iron, neodymium and boron. He hucks it into a lake in a public park in New York City, ...
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