Current Trends in Nanoscale Magnetic Materials with Low Rare Earth Content
A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Materials and Metal-Organic Frameworks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2026 | Viewed by 53
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nanocomposite magnets; nanoscale materials
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Dear Colleagues,
Today, nanocomposite magnets are widely used across industrial technologies, from electric mobility, e-vehicles, and domestic household uses to magnetic recording media, aircraft, and renewable energy generation for wind turbine components. Demand for magnets continues to increase, with the most notable demand seen in autonomous and hybrid electric vehicles, wind turbines, automation and robotics, and smart phones and telecommunication, as well as a wide range of medical devices for imaging, diagnostics, and therapies. Hence, the research community has taken great interest in identifying magnetic materials of low rare earth content, based on abundant elements, and which are cost-effective and easy to process without compromising their magnetic performance.
The present Special Issue welcomes research papers on theoretical and experimental approaches to conceiving and developing nanocomposite magnets with very low or zero rare earth content. The creation of this collection is motivated by current needs for alternative solutions to commonly employed magnetic materials.
This Special Issue aims to address all challenges encountered in developing novel nanocomposite magnets with low rare earth content, including, but not limited to:
- Theories and models of novel magnetic alloy compositions;
- Synthesis challenges and microstructure optimization for novel nanocomposite magnets;
- Magnetic phase co-existence and phase stability in operating conditions for magnets;
- Hard–soft exchange coupling in multi-phase magnetic nanocomposites;
- The optimization of magnetic performance in nanocomposite magnets with low rare earth content;
- The trade-off between lowering costs and retaining magnetic performance;
- Magnetic performances in extreme operating conditions.
Dr. Ovidiu Crisan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nanocomposite magnets with low rare earth content
- hard–soft exchange coupling
- magnetic stability
- structural phase transformation
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