Permanent magnets play a vital role in both commercial and defense sectors.
Scientists are constantly striving to develop the next generations of permanent magnets that will out perform current generation. The general objective of our research on magnetic materials is to make a major contribution to this effort. We design, synthesize, and analyze novel magnetic intermetalllics. We are specifically interested in understanding the magnetization processes in materials. For this reason, we study intermetallics which are good candidates for permanent magentic materials and those which display poor ferromagnetic properties.