Nanostructured Magnetic Materials and Technologies for Green Future
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Nanocomposite Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 3519
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Nanostructured magnetic materials (NMMs) may be considered the basis for raw energy, medical, and other applications. Each of us knows that in the process of human activity a huge amount of thermal energy is dissipated around us. This, along with other factors, contributes to an increase in ambient temperature and other currently observed climate changes. Therefore, increasing the efficiency of the devices used for generating, converting (into mechanical work), and storing electricity, as well as extracting energy (heat) from the environment, is an urgency. This problem cannot be solved without the radical improvement of the properties of permanent magnets (PM), magnetic cores, electrical steels, and other materials used for such devices. For example, since the kinetic and thermal energy of molecules are related, wind turbines essentially solve this problem by extracting excess heat from the air, and it is considered one of the most effective methods to combat global warming. However, further use of wind turbines based on synchronous permanent electric machines with increased efficiency at low speeds is hampered by the high cost of the rare earth permanent magnets, and the lack of development of advanced recycling technologies.
NMMs and novel technologies for their production are already in demand in areas where the possibilities for improving properties of microstructured materials are either almost exhausted or further research cannot lead to a cardinal improvement of a whole group (at least 3 simultaneously) of various material parameters. These areas include applications where not only the initial price of the product is important, but also the integral effect on the cost of life cycle of the product. Besides the above-mentioned wind generators, the cost of electricity per 1 km of the run of an electric vehicle may be mentioned as another example.
Applications of NMMs can have the most significant impact in areas where simultaneous optimization of a number of product parameters is required: e.g., increasing operating temperatures, reducing losses (increasing efficiency), increasing strength, and corrosion resistance.
This special issue will be devoted to NMMs which can significantly affect the green future of our planet. Therefore, the properties of hard and soft magnetic materials, production and recycling technologies, together with advanced applications for generation, transformation, utilization, accumulation, and extraction of green energy will be in focus of this special issue.
Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Tishin
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanostructured magnetic materials
- permanent magnets
- soft magnetic materials
- green energy
- efficiency
- wind turbine
- electromobility
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