Related to our CRC/TRR270, we published in Nature Communications an article on “Two-gigapascal-strong ductile soft magnets”, the work is led by Liuliu Han from Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials and in cooperation with the Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy at Forschungszentrum Jülich. We propose a new multicomponent nanostructuring design strategy that doubles the yield strength of soft magnetic materials while maintaining ductility. This design approach offers a pathway to two-gigapascal-strong ductile SMMs with moderately increased coercivity that can be tolerated in exchange for significantly improved mechanical performance for sustainable electrification.

Two-gigapascal-strong ductile soft magnets
L. Han, N. Peter, A. Kovács, F. Maccari, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, R. Xie, Y. Wu, R. Schwaiger, R.E. Dunin-Borkowski, H. Zhang, O. Gutfleisch, Z. Li, D. Raabe
Nature Communications 15, 10119 (2024).
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-53793-2