Rare earth magnets with high performance and their applications, including sintered NdFeB, SmCo magnets, etc.

2005/08-present: Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, CAS, Professor
2000/09-2005/07: Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany, Visiting Researcher
1998/08-2000/08: State Key Laboratory of Magnetism, Institute of Physics, CAS, Postdoctoral Fellow
1993/09-1998/07: Xi'an Jiaotong University, Graduate Student (M.S. and Ph.)

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Science and Technology Progress Award (2023)
First Prize of Rare Earth Science and Technology Award (2022)
First Prize of Rare Earth Science and Technology Award (2019)
New Materials Achievement Award (2019)
The19th China Patent Excellence Award (2017)
Second Prize of Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (2017)
Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award (2014)

1. C.Q. Zhu, Z. Liu, A.R. Yan, et.al., Atomic-scale revelation of Cu diffusion mechanism in high-performancePr-doped 2:17-type SmCo magnets, Acta Materialia, 2025, 282:120492
2. X.S. Xia, X. Tang, A.R. Yan, et.al., Significant enhancement in the coercivity and thermal stability of bulk hot-deformed Nd-Fe-B magnets by intergranular addition of Nd-Dy/Tb-Cu-Ga alloys,  Acta Materialia, 2022, 232:117945
3. G.F. Ding, S.C. Liao, A.R. Yan, et. al., Microstructure of core-shell NdY-Fe-B sintered magnets with a high coercivity and excellent thermal stability, Acta Materialia, 2020, 194:547-557
4. Z. X. Wang, K. Pei, A.R. Yan, et. al., Correlation between the microstructure and magnetic configuration in coarse-grain inhibited hot-deformed Nd-Fe-B magnets,  Acta Materialia, 2019, 167:103-111
5. Z. X. Wang, J. Zhang, A.R. Yan, et. al., Coercivity improvement of hot-deformed Nd-Fe-B magnets by stress-induced Pr-Cu eutectic diffusion,  Acta Materialia, 2018, 156:136-145