Iron-Nickel Permanent Magnets (IMAGE)

DOE/Ames National Laboratory

Iron-Nickel Permanent Magnets

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The Critical Materials Institute has developed a low-cost, high performance permanent magnet by drawing inspiration from an out-of-this-world source: iron-nickel alloys in meteorites.

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photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy Ames Laboratory

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