GREENE Results
GREENE’s vision is to secure Europe’s green and digital future by making permanent magnets for key industries such as e-mobility and renewable energy more sustainable and resilient. By combining smart predictions, innovative materials and advanced characterisation tools, the project redesigns magnets to use materials more efficiently while maintaining high performance, including when using recycled sources. GREENE will develope and validate these solutions in the lab and scale them up with industrial partners. The most promising results will be taken closer to market afer the project, supported by modular solutions and a dedicated skills strategy to strengthen Europe’s industry.
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PROGRESS UPDATE
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April 28, 2026
2 New Project Deliverables have been published!
Project Deliverable D2.1 Report on single crystals growth and surface analysis in UHV
Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets are vital for Europe’s green energy transition but face supply chain and sustainability challenges. This deliverable summarizes the successful growth and atomic-level surface analysis of Nd₂Fe₁₄B single crystals, laying the groundwork for advanced, sustainable magnet interfaces.
Project Deliverable D8.1 Updated PDEC
This deliverable provides the M6 update of GREENE’s Plan for Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication (PDEC), outlining target groups, actions, tools, and procedures to maximise project impact, visibility, skills development, and compliance with Horizon Europe and GDPR requirements.
September 26, 2025
We have just started our second project year, and have made considerable progress already.
We started by laying the foundation with multiscale modelling, evaluating how magnetocrystalline anisotropy and coercivity depend on strain and atom substitution. This allowed us to identify the theoretically most resilient microstructures against reverse magnetization. We have already conducted preliminary microstructure redesign experiments to process novel Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets.
The first results are promising: the resulting microstructures are free of heavy rare earths (HREs), contain a reduced total RE content, and already show encouraging magnetic properties.
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SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Samuel, Stellina, et al. “Mitigating the disproportionate environmental impacts and costs of dysprosium in Nd-Fe-B magnets through material efficiency.” Sustainable Production and Consumption, Apr. 2026, doi:10.1016/j.spc.2026.04.006.
further project results
Presentations of the webinar ‘Talking Magnets: From Atoms to Applications – A Multiscale Perspective on Magnetism and Permanent Magnets‘ organised on 16th October 2025 by the EU-funded projects GREENE & BEETHOVEN can be downloaded here.