{"id":151046,"date":"2022-11-24T22:26:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T04:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/making-cosmic-magnets-on-earth"},"modified":"2022-11-24T22:26:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T04:26:03","slug":"making-cosmic-magnets-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/making-cosmic-magnets-on-earth","title":{"rendered":"Making Cosmic Magnets on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-cosmic-magnets-on-earth.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greer and Ivanov agree that existing, albeit limited, data on tetrataenite\u2019s magnetic properties suggest that it may not match high-performance neodymium-based magnets. But the researchers maintain that optimization of the tetrataenite casting process could improve its magnetic properties and thus make it a worthwhile option. \u201cIt is good to have a wider range of permanent magnet materials, because that allows better balancing of such factors as magnetic performance and environmental impact,\u201d Greer says. \u201cA one-for-one swap with rare-earth magnets is not necessarily the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For now, the team has demonstrated how to make a piece of tetrataenite, but they say that future work will focus on how to consolidate many pieces into a bulk magnet. \u201cThe analogy here would be that we have shown we can make a brick\u2014a piece of tetrataenite\u2014but not yet a house\u2014a magnet,\u201d Greer says.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond materials science, the researchers hint that this work may even impact astrophysics research as scientists reconsider how long it takes for tetrataenite to develop in a meteorite and how fast the cooling rate is in that space environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greer and Ivanov agree that existing, albeit limited, data on tetrataenite\u2019s magnetic properties suggest that it may not match high-performance neodymium-based magnets. But the researchers maintain that optimization of the tetrataenite casting process could improve its magnetic properties and thus make it a worthwhile option. \u201cIt is good to have a wider range of permanent [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}