Creating 'Cosmic Magnets'
Professor Lindsay Greer, Professor of Materials Science and Sidney Emeritus Fellow, has been leading a team from the University of Cambridge, who, along with colleagues from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Montanuniversität in Leoben, have found a new way to make a possible replacement for rare-earth magnets: tetrataenite, a ‘cosmic magnet’ that takes millions of years to develop naturally in meteorites.
