{"id":94082,"date":"2026-03-21T14:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=94082"},"modified":"2026-03-21T14:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T09:17:35","slug":"neodymium-iron-boron-magnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neodymium-iron-boron-magnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnet"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnet Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, a Pilot Plant for the manufacture of Nd-Fe-B (Neodymium-Iron-Boron) rare earth permanent magnets was established at the International Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy and New Materials (ARCI), Hyderabad.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnet<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The NdFeB magnet is the <\/span><b>strongest permanent magnet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the world.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>tetragonal crystal<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> formed of neodymium, iron, and boron.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is made mainly from a <\/span><b>combination of Neodymium, Iron, Boron, Cobalt<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and varying levels of Dysprosium and Praseodymium.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neodymium Magnets can be divided <\/span><b>into three types:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Sintered NdFeB magnets: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the largest output and the most widely used in the NdFeB family.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Bonded NdFeB magnets: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This has the advantages <\/span><b>of low cost, high dimensional accuracy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a large degree of freedom of shape, good mechanical strength, light specific gravity, etc., and has been widely used in the market.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Hot-pressed NdFeB magnets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: They can achieve <\/span><b>magnetic properties similar<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to sintered NdFeB without adding heavy rare earth elements.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They have the <\/span><b>advantages of high density<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, , and high coercivity, but the mechanical properties are not good.<\/span><b> high orientation, good corrosion resistance<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to different production processes, they have big differences in product magnetic properties, post-processing, and applications.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Applications:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is widely used in <\/span><b>electronic products<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, such as hard drives, mobile phones, earphones, and battery-powered tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2243033&amp;reg=3&amp;lang=1#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neodymium-Iron-Boron Magnet is the strongest permanent magnet in the world. 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