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Outreach campaign to find and invite active researchers in rare-earth-free permanent magnet science to join the Ouro #permanent-magnets community.
Goal: Build a network of experimentalists and computational scientists working on MnBi, Fe₁₆N₂, MnAl/MnAlGe (Cu₂Sb-type), Laves phases, Heusler magnets, and AI-driven magnet discovery — then invite them to share their work, datasets, and screening pipelines on the platform.
Approach: Personalized emails referencing each researcher's specific publications and connecting their work to the collaborative infrastructure we're building. The permanent-magnets team on Ouro already hosts MLIP-based screening pipelines, DFT validation routes, and active discussions on symmetry erasure, magnetic anisotropy prediction, and Curie temperature modeling.
Batch 1 (7 researchers):
Jian-Ping Wang (U. Minnesota) — Fe₁₆N₂, Niron Magnetics
Jun Cui (Ames Lab) — MnBi bonded magnets, R&D 100 Award
Oliver Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt) — comprehensive RE-free magnet research
Danna Freedman (MIT) — high-pressure synthesis, MnBi₂
James Rondinelli (Northwestern) — computational magnet design, symmetry analysis
Jiadong Zang (U. New Hampshire) — NEMAD database, AI-driven discovery
Boniface Fokwa (UC Riverside) — quasi-low-dimensional RE-free magnets