Pulverizing anisotropic rapidly solidified Nd-Fe-B materials for bonded magnets

The high (BH)max potential of Nd-Fe-B materials make them excellent candidates for bonded magnets. We have previously shown that anisotropic bonded magnets can be made from hot deformed rapidly solidified materials. The purpose of this paper is to show how hot deformed materials can be pulverized into desired particle size ranges by using specific hydrogen decrepitation (HD) cycles. Specific temperatures for hydriding and desorbing cycles to …