A nanocrystalline Sm-Co compound for high-temperature permanent magnets

Zhexu Zhang1, Xiaoyan Song, Yinkai Qiao

  • 1College of Materials Science and Engineering, Key Laboratory of Advanced Functional Materials, Education Ministry of China, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.

Nanoscale
|February 19, 2013
PubMed
Summary

This study reveals that Sm5Co19 exhibits exceptional intrinsic coercivity, surpassing other samarium-cobalt compounds. This makes nanocrystalline Sm5Co19 a prime candidate for developing advanced high-temperature permanent magnets.

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