Additive manufacturing of isotropic NdFeB PPS bonded permanent magnets

M. Parans Paranthaman, Volkan Yildirim, Tej Nath Lamichhane, Benjamin A. Begley, Brian K. Post, Ahmed A. Hassen, Brian C. Sales, Kinjal Gandha, Ikenna C. Nlebedim

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Abstract

Extrusion based additive manufacturing of polymer composite magnets can increase the solid loading volume fraction with greater mechanical force through the printing nozzle as compared to traditional injection molding process. About 63 vol% of isotropic NdFeB magnet powders were compounded with 37 vol% of polyphenylene sulfide and bonded permanent magnets were fabricated while using Big Area Additive Manufacturing without any degradation in magnetic properties. The polyphenylene sulfide bonded magnets have a tensile stress of 20 MPa, almost double than that of nylon bonded permanent magnets. Additively manufactured and surface-protective-resin coated bonded magnets meet the industrial stability criterion of up to 175 °C with a flux-loss of 2.35% over 1000 h. They also exhibit better corrosion resistance behavior when exposed to acidic (pH = 1.35) solution for 24 h and also annealed at 80 °C over 100 h (at 95% relative humidity) over without coated magnets. Thus, polyphenylene sulfide bonded, additively manufactured, protective resin coated bonded permanent magnets provide better thermal, mechanical, and magnetic properties.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3319
JournalMaterials
Volume13
Issue number15
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2020

Funding

This research was supported by the Critical Materials Institute, an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office. SEM microstructural characterizations were conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is the US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility. The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan). Funding: This research was supported by the Critical Materials Institute, an Energy Innovation Hub funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Advanced Manufacturing Office. SEM microstructural characterizations were conducted at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, which is the US Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility.

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Critical Materials Institute
DOE Public Access Plan
U.S. Department of Energy
Advanced Manufacturing Office
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

    Keywords

    • Additive manufacturing
    • Magnetic properties
    • NdFeB PPS bonded permanent magnets
    • Tensile strength
    • Thermal stability

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