Magnets -- Coming Around Again (IMAGE)

DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Magnets -- Coming Around Again

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In work funded by the DOE Critical Materials Institute, ORNL researchers are demonstrating how rare earth permanent magnets can be harvested from used computer disk drives and repurposed in an axial gap motor.

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Jason Richards/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy

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