Uniformly ground
Sm2Fe17N
x
fine
powders with high-performance permanent magnetic
property and oxidation resistance characteristics were obtained from
the coarse powders by
ball milling in an organic solution containing a surfactant and surface
modification for them,
followed by fabrication of their bonded magnets. Their remanence
(B
r) and coercivity
(H
cj)
values were well-balanced and considerably higher than those for the
samples prepared by
conventional methods, and a huge maximum energy product
(BH)max around 330 kJ
m-3
was consequently attained as a reproducible average. The
Sm2Fe17N
x
powder
stabilized by
surface coating with the zinc metal produced via photodecomposition of
diethylzinc (Zn(C2H5)2) showed the better oxidation
resistivity than the uncoated samples, so that the
B
r,
H
cj, and (BH)max values were
maintained at high levels even after the heat treatment at
353−423 K for several hours as required to cure epoxy resin bonded
magnets. The bonded
magnets prepared from the
Zn/Sm2Fe17N
x
powders provided the highest (BH)max value
(∼176
kJ m-3) among the values reported up to date,
even after exposure to air, and their
irreversible flux loss was also smaller than that of the uncoated
one.
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