
"It's about providing the scientific community access to high fields," says Murphy. The pulling power of the worlds strongest resistive magnet now stands at 41. The magnet is housed at the DC Field Facility, and its director Tim Murphy says the record-breaking magnet will prove its worth in the years to come. While hybrid magnets can create stronger magnetic fields, resistive magnets are easier for scientists to make use of, and this one will be made available to scientists and researchers in the coming months. "That enabled power to be distributed more efficiently within the magnet and reach a new record with the same materials." The magnetic energy product (BHmax) of this magnet is greater than that of a samarium cobalt magnet. Who found the NdFeB magnet In 1982, Masato Sagawa from Sumitomo Special Metals in Japan discovered the neodymium magnet. "This larger magnet allows us to use 50 percent more coils," says Project 11 magnet designer Jack Toth. Neodymium magnet, also known as NdFeB magnet, is the most powerful type of permanent magnets available to consumers today. The record was achieved by introduced tweaks to the design to improve electrical current density and repurposing parts from old magnets to keep costs down. Its a common concern that a magnet simply wont hold the weight of the project youre trying to complete. When the voltage hits, current flows through in a helix pattern to create a strong magnetic field in the centre. All About the Strongest Magnet in the World.

"The hybrid magnet of the National Steady State High Magnetic Field Experiment Facility produces the world's highest steady state magnetic field, which effectively improves the experimental conditions for scientists to carry out material science research, and will play an indispensable key role in the research of low-power electronic materials and other fields," said the SHMFF team in a statement on the High Magnetic Field Laboratory website.Resistive magnets like the new record-breaker at MagLab are formed from stacks of copper conductors and insulating material, put together in a helical structure.

The record-breaking SHMFF magnet requires a power input of only 26.9 megawatts, lower than MagLab's previous 30MW.Īccording to MagLab, magnets are complicated to maintain, however, as the superconductor needs to be kept at a temperature of 1.5 degrees Kelvin, or -456.97 Fahrenheit. After three years of intensive research and design work, a team led by MIT scientists ramped up a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet until it generated a record-breaking magnetic field with a strength of 20 tesla the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth.


According to MagLab, a hybrid magnet uses superconducting wire that doesn't require large amounts of power to create a magnetic field, however, once the wire stops becoming a superconductor, the magnetic field cannot get stronger. "To achieve higher magnetic field, we innovated the structure of the magnet, and developed new materials," said Professor Kuang Guangli, the academic director of the High Magnetic Field Laboratory of Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CHMFL), in a statement.Ī hybrid magnet, like both the landmark SHMFF magnet and the 1999 record holder, uses a combination of two different methods to create a magnetic field.
