Japanese geologists Yasuhiro Kato at the University of Tokyo, reported that "rare earths are found plentiful on the seafloor", and claimed that "ra
Rare earths are valuable for a range of technologies, most of all, for the electronics industry. Currently about 97% rare earths are supplied
Recently, new ferrite material from TDG was listed as one of the new key products by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China. Th
We saw mobilephones and notebooks upgraded fast every year; we read a lot about the green electric cars and wind turbines for renewable energy and
Can the powerful hospital machine using magetic technology, MRI, hurt or even kill? Believe it or not, MRI can cause burn or hearing loss. It can b
Hadjipanayis, chairman of physics at the University of Delaware and his assistants,are working on neodymium-iron-boron magnet. They are using nanot
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From corporate news at NEO Material Technologies Inc. (Magnequench) Nov. 10 2011 NEO Materials Technologies (TSX: NEM) today reported its financial results for the 3 months and 9 months periods ended...
From: Yahoo Finance GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Sep 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE:MCP), the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth oxides (REO) and the largest REO producer outside...
Landisville, PA, (February 4, 2011) — Electron Energy Corporation (“EEC”) of Landisville, Pennsylvania announces that it has signed a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) with Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (“GWMG”...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (7 a.m. Eastern, Oct 24, 2011) -- Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP), the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth oxides and the world's leading producer of rare...
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, CO (11:30 a.m. Eastern, November 28, 2011) – Molycorp, Inc. (NYSE: MCP) (Molycorp), Daido Steel Co., Ltd. (Daido), and Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi) today announced the formation of a...
February 4, 2011 Rochester, NY – The collaboration between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (“LLNL”) and Arnold Magnetic Technologies (“Arnold”) began with a theoretical design developed by Dr. Dick Post of LLNL,...
July 13, 2009 Greenwood Village, Colorado and Rochester, New York – Molycorp Minerals, LLC (“Molycorp”) and Arnold Magnetic Technologies Corporation (“Arnold”) announced today that they have signed a Letter of Intent...
Tokyo, November 25, 2011 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE:6501 “Hitachi”) will realign the operation of the Hitachi Group’s battery business into a framework organized by application, specifically, consumer,...
Tokyo, Japan, December 5, 2011 --- Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE:HIT / TSE:6501) today announced a change in the schedule for transfer of Hitachi’s hard disk drive business to Western Digital Corporation...
TDK-EPC, a group company of TDK Corporation, has extended its range of EPCOS inrush current limiters (ICL). The P11 series (B57211P*) covers a resistance range from 4 to 25 Ω...
November 28, 2011 TDK Corporation (President: Takehiro Kamigama) today announced that it will raise production efficiency by ending the production of chip resonators*, an unprofitable product category, with details as follows....
From Epson Corporate News – TOKYO, Japan, December 8, 2011 – Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson," TSE: 6724) today announced that Group company Epson Atmix Corporation, the world leader*1 in the...
From News at University of Dublin Dec 21, 2011 A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin, Oxford University, the University of Bath and the ISIS neutron spallation source, have explained for the first time the fundamental reason for the high conductivity of lead dioxide, the key material that makes lead-acid batteries, which are found in most cars, function. A report of the research appears in this week’s Physical Review Letters. ...
From NIMS news 2011.11.15 Dr. Hiroaki Mamiya, a Senior Researcher of the Neutron Scattering Group, Quantum Beam Unit, National Institute for Materials Science, in collaboration with Prof. Balachandran Jeyadevan of the School of Engineering at the University of Shiga Prefecture have investigated theoretically the mechanism of hyperthermic potentiation of cancers using magnetic nanoparticles,
Complex nanostructures such as multi-armed II-VI semiconductor nanotetrapods, which normally consist of four wurtzite-structured “arms” projecting out at the tetrahedral angle bridged at a pyramidal shaped zincblende-structured “core”, are promising building blocks for next-generation nanoelectronics. As revealed theoretically, the band offset at the zincblend/wurtzite interface can result in an electron localization in the zincblende core and...
Among all the electrochemical energy storage devices, lithium ion battery, due to its high energy density, high power density, has been widely used in portable electronic devices, and has also been proposed for use in electric vehicles and large-scale energy storage. Spinel Li4Ti5O12 has attracted great interest as a new anode material for lithium ion battery. Its relatively high lithiation voltage plateau at 1.54V (versus Li/Li+) can avoid th...
Transmission electron microscopes (TEM) are amongst the most powerful tools for observing the microstructure of materials at high spatial resolution. The trend of modern scientific development has required characterizing the physical and chemical properties of materials and solving specific problems in condense matter physics at atomic resolution
Ferromagnetic systems obtained by doping transition metals into semiconductors1 have generated extensive studies since early 1990s because of their potential use for spin-sensitive electronics (spintronics) devices. In proto-typical systems based on III–V semiconductors, such as (Ga,Mn)As, sub, stitution of divalent Mn atoms into trivalent Ga sites leads to severely limited chemical solubility. Because of this, the specimens are chemically met...
Tiny crystals exhibit unexpected properties. Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology and the S.N. Bose National Centre Kolkata can now explain why. A little piece of iron wire is magnetic – just like a huge iron rod. When it comes to material properties, size usually does not matter. Surprisingly, researchers from Austria and India have now discovered that some materials show very unusual behavior, when they are studied in the...
The U.S. Department of Energy will fund two additional cutting-edge research projects at the Ames Laboratory through its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy's (ARPA-E) Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program. The project are aimed at replacing rare-earths in magnets used for wind turbines and electric vehicles.
From DOE/Ames Laboratory The work could lead to improved methodologies for creating materials by design AMES, Iowa – Scientists have given us a plethora of new materials – all created by combining individual elements under varying temperatures and other conditions. But to tweak an intermetallic compound even more, in order to give it the attributes you desire, you have to go deeper and re-arrange individual atoms.
From: News at Northeastern University April 19, 2011 Some of the world’s earliest applications of magnets were for feng shui by ancient Chinese cultures, and in compasses for navigators sailing the globe. Today, next-generation magnets are being performed to advance new hybrid vehicles, wind turbines, and even the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, said Northeastern University professor Vincent Harris.
From: Brookhaven National Lab July 25, 21 UPTON, NY — Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory have observed a new way that magnetic and electric properties — which have a long history of ignoring and counteracting each other — can coexist in a special class of metals. These materials, known as multiferroics, could serve as the basis for the next generation of faster and energy-efficient logic, memory, ...
From: News at UDRI's Institute Dayton University July 11, 2011 The city of Dayton has awarded $450,000 to UDRI's Institute for the Development and Commercialization of Advanced Sensor Technologies to help create jobs in sensor technologies. IDCAST Director Larrell Walters said the institute will serve as administrator to the funds, which will be awarded during three years to companies seeking to bring their sensor technologies to market ...
From: News at Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University October 5, 2011 AMES, Iowa - The Nobel Foundation today announced Dan Shechtman of the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory, Iowa State University and Israel's Technion has won the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The foundation announced that The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had selected Shechtman "for the discovery of quasicrystals".
From an article written by Mark Ingebretsen that appeared in Inquiry, a publication of Ames Laboratory. Ames Laboratory scientists have come up with a new process to prepare neodymium-iron-boron (Nd2Fe14B) permanent magnets that has the potential to enable them to be produced economically in the United States. What’s more, the Ames Laboratory process doesn’t produce the environmentally unfriendly byproducts that result from traditional ...
From: Department of Physics and Astronomy University of Delaware The study and applications of magnetic materials date back to ancient China, Greece, and the dawn of modern science when in 1600 William Gilbert published his great study of magnetism De Magnete which gave the first rational explanation to the mysterious ability of the compass needle to point north-south. Around the same time, Decartes formulated mechanical model to explain m
2011.10.31 National Institute for Materials Science Dr. Tomoya Nakatani, a JSPS Post Doctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Materials Science, in collaboration with the members of the Magnetic Materials Unit led by Dr. Kazuhiro Hono, has demonstrated a scissors-type trilayer magn
The piezoresistance effect of silicon has been widely used in mechanical sensors, and is now being actively explored in order to improve the performance of silicon transistors. In fact, strain engineering is now considered to be one of the most promising strategies for developing high-performance