A Rare Metal Called Neodymium is in Your Headphones, Cellphone and Electric Cars You may not have heard of neodymium, but you’re probably carrying some of it around with you right now. It’s in your cellphone, your headphones and you might be driving several pounds of it around in your car. Neodymium — pronounced “nee-oh-DIM-ee-um” [...]
Investors Resist Pull of Chinese Rare Earth Magnet Maker JL Mag HONG KONG -- A major Chinese manufacturer of rare earth magnets for electric vehicles, wind power generators and energy-efficient air conditioners made an underwhelming debut on the Hong Kong stock market on Friday despite being a key player in a red-hot sector. JL Mag [...]
Is The United States Considering Launching a Section 232 Investigation into Chinese Neodymium Magnets? According to information reported by White House officials, the U.S. Treasury Department is considering launching a Section 232 investigation on the grounds of "national security". The object of the investigation is the import of neodymium magnets widely used in electromechanical products, [...]
LG Innotek Develops Eco-friendly Magnet with Enhanced Strength LG Innotek developed high-efficiency, eco-friendly magnets for use in vehicles and smart devices, aiming to advance into a market dominated by Chinese and Japanese manufacturers, the electronic component arm of LG Group said Monday. The company worked jointly with local magnet company Sunglim Group Industry to develop [...]
The World's Strongest "Environmentally Friendly Magnet"? LG Develops New Materials to be used in various digital products According to South Korea's "Dong-A Ilbo", LG Innotek, a subsidiary of LG, said that it has jointly developed an "environmentally friendly magnet" with the world's strongest magnetic force with the magnet specialized company "Sacred Forest Advanced Industries". Heavy [...]
42 Strange Things Salvaged with Powerful Magnets You are standing on the wooden pier by the lake, calm and serene. The wind ruffled your hair and you can't help but think, in this moment, you are completely healed. Just then, someone was standing by the muddy lake, dragging a huge set of rusted armor out [...]
If Magnet Keeps Doing External Work, Will Its Magnetism Become Weaker? The problem itself is actually a misunderstanding of magnets. Magnets can do work, but they do not consume their own magnetism in the process of doing work. Magnets look magical, but they are actually not mysterious. The principle is very similar to that of [...]
Why is the US Military Hypersensitive to a Chinese Magnet? Some time ago, during a routine inspection of the F-35 fighter jets, the US military "suddenly" discovered that there were actually Chinese-made magnets on the turbine engines of these fighter jets! This is incredible. The U.S. military has regulations prohibiting the procurement and use of [...]
Soft Ferrites Applications Ferrites are polycrystalline oxides manufactured by ceramic technology and belong to a class of materials that exhibit the technically useful property of ferromagnetism. In a ferromagnetic material, magnetism occurs under the influence of an externally applied field. On removals of this field, material returns to its non-magnetic state. This behaviour is termed [...]
About LLC Converter Topology Power conversion is the process of converting electrical energy from one form to the other. The devices responsible for this conversion can work to convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) & vice versa. They range from simple setups like a transformer to more complex conversion systems like resonant converters. [...]
Why are Ferrite Cores Used for Antenna Coils? Antennas have been used for many years to catch waves that are invisible to the naked eye. These electromagnetic waves travel around us, carrying information that’s grabbed by the antennas & used by the application it's attached to. Since all current-carrying wires around us develop their own [...]
Know About Ferrite Cable Cores As long as electronic items surround us, electromagnetic waves will be around us too. These waves are naked to the human eye and won’t affect your day-to-day activities. Born from the flow of electric current, these, however, can affect parts of devices like the power supply cable. The cable acts [...]