Thatingles t1_iujqul7 wrote on October 31, 2022 at 9:15 PM

Reply to comment by KmartQuality in British and Austrian scientists have developed substances that have the opportunity to replace rare earths. In the future, the "artificial cosmic magnets" produced in the laboratory are expected to be used in wind power generation and electric vehicles. by future168life

It was discovered accidentally. The mixing with phosphorous sounds like standard PhD research stuff; take this bit of chemistry no one has examined closely and work it around to see what happens. Most of the time it doesn't really go anywhere exciting but in this case they found something unexpected and potentially game changing.

I really hope it plays out, it would really help with a lot of issues if we could replace rare earths with nickel-iron alloys. That would be sweet.