{"id":158228,"date":"2023-02-16T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-approach-to-cosmic-magnet-manufacturing-could-reduce-reliance-on-rare-earths-in-low-carbon-technologies"},"modified":"2023-02-16T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T18:29:34","slug":"new-approach-to-cosmic-magnet-manufacturing-could-reduce-reliance-on-rare-earths-in-low-carbon-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/new-approach-to-cosmic-magnet-manufacturing-could-reduce-reliance-on-rare-earths-in-low-carbon-technologies","title":{"rendered":"New approach to \u2018cosmic magnet\u2019 manufacturing could reduce reliance on rare earths in low-carbon technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-approach-to-cosmic-magnet-manufacturing-could-reduce-reliance-on-rare-earths-in-low-carbon-technologies2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from Austria, found a new way to make a possible replacement for rare-earth magnets: tetrataenite, a \u2018cosmic magnet\u2019 that takes millions of years to develop naturally in meteorites.<\/p>\n<p>Previous attempts to make tetrataenite in the laboratory have relied on impractical, extreme methods. But the addition of a common element \u2014 phosphorus \u2014 could mean that it\u2019s possible to make tetrataenite artificially and at scale, without any specialised treatment or expensive techniques.<\/p>\n<p>The results are reported in the journal Advanced Science. A patent application on the technology has been filed by Cambridge Enterprise, the University\u2019s commercialisation arm, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers have discovered a potential new method for making the high-performance magnets used in wind turbines and electric cars without the need for rare earth elements, which are almost exclusively sourced in China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Cambridge, working with colleagues from Austria, found a new way to make a possible replacement for rare-earth magnets: tetrataenite, a \u2018cosmic magnet\u2019 that takes millions of years to develop naturally in meteorites. Previous attempts to make tetrataenite in the laboratory have relied on impractical, extreme methods. But the addition of a common element [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158228","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}