Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: A group in Japan has come up with nano-particle based magnets mainly made > from Fe. I think it was at Tohoku U. . . . - Jed

Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread Terry Blanton
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Shek Singhal wrote: > For some reason the mainstream has > begun to think that evolution of technology on this planet has completed its > process and theres nowhere further to go. "Paradigm shifts tend to be most dramatic in sciences that appear to be stable and m

Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread Shek Singhal
Changes in chemistry are currently 1-in-a-million due to the large upfront infrastructure expenditure required to get anything off the ground - or even to the proof of concept stage. This includes even if you are affiliated with a university. Thus we see dozens of such reports on PhysOrg every mon

Re: [Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread Jed Rothwell
A group in Japan has come up with nano-particle based magnets mainly made from Fe. Supposedly they are as strong as rare-earth magnets, without the rare earths. The design was proposed theoretically decades ago. It has only now become practical. I just wrote that from memory. The story was rep

[Vo]:CNN.COM: The race to make the world's strongest magnet

2011-03-09 Thread OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson
Worth reading: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/innovation/03/09/rare.earth.magnet.race/index.html?hpt=Sbin Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks