Special Issue "Manganese-based Permanent Magnets"

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Ian Baker
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 8000 Cummings Hall, Hanover, NH 03755-8000, USA
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Interests: microstructural characterization; phase transformations; mechanical properties; magnetic materials

Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Zhongwu Liu
Department of Metallic Materials Science and Engineering School of Materials Science and Engineering South China University of Technology 381 Wushan Road, Guangzhou 510640, China
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E-Mail: zwliu@scut.edu.cn
Phone: +86-20-22236906
Interests: Magnetic materials (permanent magnets, soft magnets; magnetocalorc materials; magnetic nanoparticles); functional thin films; oxide nanostructures

Dear Colleagues,

There is a significant gap between the energy product, BH_max, of both the traditional ferrite and AlNiCo permanent magnets of less than 10 MGOe and that of the rare earth magnets of greater than 30 MGOe. This is a gap that Mn-based magnets could potentially fill inexpensively. This special issue presents work on the development of both MnAl and MnBi permanent magnets. Some of the challenges involved in the development of these magnets include improving the compounds’ energy product, increasing the thermal stability of these metastable compounds, and producing them in quantity as a bulk material. These challenges are addressed from both experimental and theoretical points of view in the papers presented here.

Prof. Dr. Ian Baker
Prof. Dr. Zhongwu Liu
Guest Editors

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• permanent magnets
• Mn-based magnets
• maximum energy product
• MnAl
• MnBi