“—a breakthrough that could significantly advance clean energy technologies and consumer electronics such as motors, robotics, MRI machines, data storage and smart phones.”
It’s interesting, but even if it’s reaching near rare earth strength, can it be produced at scale? A less powerful magnet is useful if it can be cheaper.
Thats the challenge with novel materials, but it seems like they have gotten somewhat better at bringing them to market lately. For instance, novel battery technology
True the battery tech is really coming along, going to be interesting to see what prices are like when I go to replace the 22kwh worth of batteries on my boat next year. The fight between cheaper tech, inflation, and tariffs is going to be a nail biter.
This desperately needs a chart representing the relative strength of different magnet materials so that we can see where this is on the spectrum.
so that we can see where this is on the spectrum.
Damn even magnets are autistic now. Wokeness has gone too far!!!
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The woke force in magnets has gone too far!
Nice to see something else coming to recent news from Washington than dumb-assery and racism.
I love when people discover scientific solutions to war, but war always gets the most funding.
From that image it appears that this magnet is formed from a crystal of manganese, iron, cobalt, and nickel, which weirdly are all direct neighbors on the periodic table.
What’s with that? Is this a crystal thing? Like are similarly sized atoms more stable in a lattice? I’m no chemist, but this strikes me as interesting, or at least weird
Like are similarly sized atoms more stable in a lattice?
Actually yes. That’s why you can’t arbitrarily add random elements into a crystal (well you can a little bit). If the geometries vary too greatly you introduce stresses into the lattice.
