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Vulcan, UNC-Chapel Hill Partner to Advance Magnet Innovation

Vulcan Elements & UNC-Chapel Hill are collaborating, leveraging $600,000 in research funding to boost rare earth magnet performance via quantum-mechanical simulations.
A $600,000 research award from the North Carolina Collaboratory will fund Yosuke Kanai, PhD, of UNC-Chapel Hill’s work applying quantum-mechanical simulations to improve rare earth magnet performance at Vulcan Elements. The partnership unites Kanai’s 25 years of computational materials research with Vulcan’s…
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