{"id":25906,"date":"2016-05-19T23:49:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T06:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/rare-earth-free-magnet-made-from-cheap-materials"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:47:37","slug":"rare-earth-free-magnet-made-from-cheap-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/rare-earth-free-magnet-made-from-cheap-materials","title":{"rendered":"Rare-earth-free magnet made from cheap materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rare-earth-free-magnet-made-from-cheap-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new cheaper way in creating magnets.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>US researchers have created a powerful permanent magnet out of iron and nitrogen, two plentiful cheap materials, as part of a programme to cut the need for \u2018rare earth\u2019 metals.<\/p>\n<p>It is only a tiny sample, a film 500nm thick, but it is the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the best of our knowledge, this could be the first experimental evidence of the existence of a giant saturation magnetisation, an obviously large coercivity, with a magnetic energy product of up to 20 MGOe, in a bulk-type FeN sample.\u201d said the team in \u2018<a rel=\"image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/srep25436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Synthesis of Fe<sub>16 <\/sub>N<sub>2<\/sub> compound free-standing foils with 20MGOe magnetic energy product by nitrogen ion-implantation<\/a>\u2019, a Nature Scientic Reports paper written by a team from the University of Minnesota, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/research-news\/rare-earth-free-magnet-made-from-cheap-materials-2016-05\/\">http:\/\/www.electronicsweekly.com\/news\/research-news\/rare-ear...16&#45;05\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new cheaper way in creating magnets. US researchers have created a powerful permanent magnet out of iron and nitrogen, two plentiful cheap materials, as part of a programme to cut the need for \u2018rare earth\u2019 metals. It is only a tiny sample, a film 500nm thick, but it is the real thing. \u201cTo the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50442,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25906\/revisions\/50442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}