Finding a comparable substitute material is key to reducing manufacturing reliance
on dysprosium; the current demand for it far outpaces mining and recycling sources for it.
Not exact matches
With construction of Browns Range
on track to be completed next month, there could hardly be a better time for Northern to emerge as the only
dysprosium source outside of China.
A decrease in Chinese production of
dysprosium highlighted by research commissioned by Northern Minerals, has placed an increasing focus
on the company's Browns Range rare earths project.
The key for such new wave of EVs is a magnet for electric motors developed by the Japanese firm, which halves the use of a rare earth called neodymium and eliminates the use of others called terbium and
dysprosium, the company revealed
on Tuesday.
Now Pimenov and his team have succeeded in switching such excitations
on and off with an electric field in a special material made of
dysprosium, manganese and oxygen (DyMnO3).
The most powerful ones are based
on the rare earth elements neodymium and
dysprosium.