Z. Wei, L. Lele, Z. Xusheng, Y. Yang, X. Jun, M. Yanjiao, Z. Hong, L. Jitao
{"title":"Coercivity improvement for vanadium carbide (VC) doped sintered Nd−Fe−B magnets: Effectively tuning microstructure\u0000 Verbesserung der Koerzitivkraft von mit Vanadiumkarbid (VC) dotierten gesinterten Nd−Fe−B−Magneten: Effektive Abstimmung des Gefüges","authors":"Z. Wei, L. Lele, Z. Xusheng, Y. Yang, X. Jun, M. Yanjiao, Z. Hong, L. Jitao","doi":"10.1002/mawe.202400244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mawe.202400244","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Vanadium carbide (VC) nano-particles were introduced into sintered Nd−Fe−B magnets for the purpose of grain refinement and coercivity enhancement. The effect of vanadium carbide (VC) addition on the microstructure and magnetic properties evolution of sintered Nd−Fe−B magnets was studied. Based on the characterization results, the additive vanadium carbide (VC) nano-particles mainly reacted with rare earth (RE)-rich phase to form ferrovanadium (FeV) phase, which rooted in the grain boundary. The ferrovanadium (FeV) phase inserted influence on the dissolution-precipitation process and acted as pinning sites and heterogeneous nucleation sites, which was favorable for the grain refinement. As a result, the coercivity of sintered magnets enhanced significantly from 13.62 kOe to 16.15 kOe without obvious decline of remanence when the vanadium carbide (VC) nano-particles additive amount increased from 0 wt.–% to 0.1 wt.–%. The above findings shed light on the microstructure manipulation to obtain high performance sintered magnets.</p>","PeriodicalId":18366,"journal":{"name":"Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik","volume":"56 3","pages":"476-483"},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143698838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}