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Materials

Understanding Magnet Grades and Materials Tables

How NdFeB and SmCo grades work — BHmax, the M/H/SH/UH/EH/TH coercivity letters, and the trade-offs between strength, temperature, and cost.

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Elemental Iron (Fe): The Fundamental Magnetic Element

Iron is the foundation of magnetic science: where ferromagnetism comes from, why interatomic alignment matters, and the role of the Curie temperature.

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Soft Magnetic Materials: Introduction and Applications — Part 1

Why "soft" describes magnetic behavior, not mechanical hardness — and how soft magnets quietly power motors, transformers, sensors, and almost every appliance you own.

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Soft Magnetic Materials: Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) — Part 2

How to read a B-H curve and which KPIs — coercivity, saturation, permeability, resistivity, magnetostriction, Curie temperature — actually drive soft magnetic performance.

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Soft Magnetic Materials: Current Availability on the Market — Part 3

Iron, Fe-Si, Permalloy, Fe-Co, amorphous and nanocrystalline alloys, SMCs, and ferrites — a market guide showing why no single soft magnetic material wins everywhere.

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Making a Neodymium Magnet — Eleven (Not So) Easy Steps

From raw-material recipe through strip casting, jet milling, sintering, machining, coating, and magnetizing — every step in producing a sintered NdFeB magnet.

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