Month: May 2012
No Substitutions
A Column by Dr. Stan Trout In a famous scene from the movie “Five Easy Pieces,” Jack Nicholson demonstrates how frustrated someone can become with seemingly unreasonable requests. In this case, it was the phrase […]
Rare Earth Myths Debunked
By John Ebert, Business Manager • Yunsheng USA, Inc. The growing interest in rare earth (RE) materials has created new opportunities in motion control design and an entirely new generation of applications from BLDC motors […]
Replacing the Rare Earth Intellectual Capital
By Karl A. Gschneidner, Jr., Senior Metallurgist • Ames Laboratory, US Department of Energy The rare earth crisis slowly evolved during a 10 to 15 year period beginning in the mid-1980s, when the Chinese began […]