Ferromagnetic nuclear resonance characterization of novel magnetic materials for automotive applications

Rare earths are used in the renewable energy technologies such as wind turbines, batteries, catalysts and electric cars, availability is undergoing a temporary decline due mainly to quotas being imposed by the few countries government on export and action taken against illegal mining operations. The reduction in availability coupled with increasing demand has led to increased prices for rare earths. Although the prices have come down recently, this situation is likely to be volatile until material becomes available from new sources or formerly closed mines are reopened, thus comes the importance of our research target by to exploit some well known fundamental techniques in expetrimental physics such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR/NQR) and Single Point Detection (SPD) to exploit properties of ferromagnets that can approach some desired properties in of Rare-Earth metal in the aim to find a cheaper, much more producable and efficient alternatives to the natural rare earth metals.