Frontiers in Magnetic Materials

The book aims to provide comprehensive and practical guidance on magnetism and magnetic materials. It involves four parts, focusing on fundamental magnetism, hard magnetic materials, soft magnetic materials and other functional magnetic materials.

Chen Wu is an Associate Professor of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University. She has completed D.Phil. and post-doctorate research in Materials Science at the University of Oxford. Her research interest lies in the design, fabrication and manipulation of magnetic composites and their wide frequency applications. Jiaying Jin is an Associate Professor of the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Zhejiang University. Her main research interest is the magnetism and permanent magnetic materials.

Part I Fundamental magnetism 1. Introduction of magnetics 2. Origin and categories of magnetisms 3. Important parameters and magnetic measurements Part II Hard magnetic materials 4. Introduction to soft magnetic materials 5. Soft magnetic alloys 6. Soft magnetic composites 7. Soft magnetic ferrites 8. Introduction to hard magnetic materials Part III Soft magnetic materials 9. Rare-earth-free hard magnetic materials 10. SmCo hard magnetic materials 11. NdFeB hard magnetic materials 12. Other emerging hard magnetic materials Part IV Functional magnetic materials 13. Materials with magnetic-X effects 14. Magnetic materials for electromagnetic wave absorption 15. Magnetic materials for biomedicine, catalysis and others