For decades, permanent magnets have been one of the least questioned links in the electrification supply chain.

The government is pressing automakers to redesign electric motors and other parts without rare earth magnets, even as it prepares a policy push to build domestic magnet-making capacity.

The Nano Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), led by Dr. Tae-Hoon Kim and Dr. Jung-Goo Lee, has successfully developed a groundbreaking grain boundary ...