Project objectives:

1. The first objective focuses on the elaboration  and study of new hard and soft magnetic phases with remarkable magnetic properties, aiming to optimize the interphase exchange coupling, resulting in exchange coupled magnets, spring magnets, with high remanence and coercivity. This objective will be fulfilled by 3 work packets, WP.
   
   
2. The second objective, the main objective of the project, aims at developing exchange coupled hard/soft magnetic nanocomposites with a high energy product, obtained through mechanical milling or quenching, using hard phases such as SmCo₅, Nd₂Fe₁₄B, Sm₂Fe₁₇N_x or the aforementioned newly obtained hard phases and soft phases based on Fe or Fe-Co alloys. The interphase exchange coupling leads to the whole composite behaving like a single hard magnetic phase. This objective will be fulfilled by another 3 work packets.