EVENTS REPM2025

[Dustin]

REPM2025 (The 28th International Workshop on Rare Earth and Future Permanent Magnets and Their Applications) will be held on July 27th (Sun) – 31st (Thr), 2025 at Tsukuba, Japan.
The Rare Earth Permanent Magnet Workshop is a biennial event that focuses on advances in the science and technology of rare earth permanent magnets. It highlights recent developments in the design and implementation of high-performance permanent magnets for energy applications. The workshop will cover both fundamental materials research in academia and developments in industrial applications such as motors, generators, and actuators. It will also address issues of rare earth resources and magnet recycling to assess life cycle sustainability. Fundamental aspects of materials development will also include innovative computational methods such as machine learning and data-driven accelerated materials discovery, novel alloy design approaches, and advanced processing and characterization techniques. Proposals for alternative magnets without rare earth elements are also within the scope.

Important Dates:

• January 6th, 2025: Abstract Submission Opens
• February 12th, 2025: Abstract Submission Due
• April 11th, 2025: Registration Opens
• April 18th, 2025: Acceptance Notification
• June 15th, 2025: Early-bird Registration Closes
• July 10th, 2025: Registration Closes
• July 27th-31st, 2025: The conference to be held at Tsukuba, Japan
• August 1st, 2025: Post Conference Tour to “Nikko” (opens in a new tab)

Note About Venue Information

The Tsukuba is known as Tsukuba Science City (opens in a new tab), and it has been developed in order to carry out world-level research works. Abundant national research institutes and university are in the city, and many foreign researchers, engineers, and students are working/studying there.

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[John]

I love some of the quotes from the REPM 2023 conference contained in the Physics World article :

https://physicsworld.com/a/powering-the-green-economy-the-quest-for-magnets-without-rare-earths/

"People in the magnet community have therefore long been seeking a magnet that sits in the gap between ferrite and neodymium in terms of price and performance. Everyone would love a super-cheap magnet that outperforms neodymium but these “god-like” materials don’t currently exist – in fact, some say they never will. Still, every time the price of neodymium spikes, there’s a resurgence of interest in new magnets. In fact, I was shocked to learn at the Birmingham meeting just how many potential magnet materials are in the running.

To me at least, it seems that the challenge isn’t in making new materials per se. What’s difficult is optimizing the material and the production process, which can literally take decades. As the Japanese scientist Masato Sagawa – the inventor of neodymium magnets – pointed out in the opening plenary at REPM, it has taken 40 years of heroic effort for these materials to reach their current BHmax, which is about 90% of its theoretical maximum value, and to achieve high coercivity and high performance."


And then as I always say "NdPr here to STAY"