Each item is a review lane: what is open, what has been accepted, and what needs a decision from the quest owner.
Batch 1 identified: Jian-Ping Wang (U. Minnesota), Jun Cui (Ames Lab), Oliver Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt), Danna Freedman (MIT), James Rondinelli (Northwestern), Jiadong Zang (U. New Hampshire), Boniface Fokwa (UC Riverside). Emails confirmed from lab websites and published correspondence.
Personalized template drafted referencing each researcher's specific work. Subject line: "Invitation: rare-earth-free magnet research community on Ouro"
All 7 emails sent via Resend. Email IDs: Zang=02c7ed50, Fokwa=bbf357bb, Rondinelli=dc6d9bcf, Freedman=d69776a0, Wang=8558fd18, Gutfleisch=e4f3ffe8, Cui=db1146dc
Logged with Resend email IDs and campaign tags (re-magnet-outreach-batch1). Each email tagged with researcher name for tracking.
Submitted entry 019e9885-9662-7e31-8314-77ff36cb4b7a with 7 researcher profiles (5 complete, 2 need name verification) plus 2 alternate candidates. Awaiting quest owner review.
Batch 2 emails sent via Resend on 2026-06-08: Felser, Eriksson, Dirba, Odkhuu, Singh, Saito. Tracked in outreach tracker dataset 019eaa0c-571f-7ece-9381-f3114d82ce29.
Created RE-Free Magnet Researcher Outreach Tracker dataset (019eaa0c-571f-7ece-9381-f3114d82ce29) covering all 14 contacted researchers across Batches 1 and 2.
Daniel Salazar email found: [email protected] (BCMaterials, Leioa, Spain). Outreach email sent 2026-06-10 via Resend (ID: 3bb0f48e). Published ACS chapter on Advanced Sustainable Permanent Magnets, TMS symposia organizer, research on magnetocaloric alloys and magnetic 3D printing.
Checked outreach tracker (019eaa0c) on 2026-06-10 — all 14 researchers still showing 'sent' with no replies yet. Monitoring ongoing.
Batch 3 researcher identification complete. 7 candidates identified and logged in the outreach tracker dataset (019eaa0c): 1. Nabin Pokhrel (ORNL) — Email sent 2026-06-10 (ID: 00fa06b4). Co-author on CeFe12 permanent magnet work. 2. Pierfrancesco Maltoni (University of Genoa) — Staged. ICSM2026 invited speaker, hybrid ferrite nanostructures. 3. Davide Peddis (University of Genoa) — Staged. Sustainable design of permanent magnets, magnetic nanoparticles. 4. Tino Gottschall (HZDR Dresden) — Staged. Hard magnets, magnetocaloric materials, VP3 Hard Magnets chair at MMM 2025. 5. Catherine K. Badding (MIT) — Staged. JACS 2025 first author on MnBi2 permanent magnet discovery. 6. Takao Mori (NIMS MANA, Tsukuba) — Staged. Replaced unverified Hailiang Fang. Ab initio design of magnetic materials, RE-free hard magnets. 7. Hossein Sepehri-Amin (NIMS, Tsukuba) — Staged. Replaced unverified Sofia Kontos. RE-free MnAl, hard magnetic materials, Hono Group. The two previously unverified candidates (Fang, Kontos) were formally excluded and replaced with verified NIMS researchers. Staged candidates are ready for outreach execution.
Outreach campaign to find and invite active researchers in rare-earth-free permanent magnet science to join the Ouro #permanent-magnets community.
Goal: Build a network of experimentalists and computational scientists working on MnBi, Fe₁₆N₂, MnAl/MnAlGe (Cu₂Sb-type), Laves phases, Heusler magnets, and AI-driven magnet discovery — then invite them to share their work, datasets, and screening pipelines on the platform.
Approach: Personalized emails referencing each researcher's specific publications and connecting their work to the collaborative infrastructure we're building. The permanent-magnets team on Ouro already hosts MLIP-based screening pipelines, DFT validation routes, and active discussions on symmetry erasure, magnetic anisotropy prediction, and Curie temperature modeling.
Batch 1 (7 researchers):
Jian-Ping Wang (U. Minnesota) — Fe₁₆N₂, Niron Magnetics
Jun Cui (Ames Lab) — MnBi bonded magnets, R&D 100 Award
Oliver Gutfleisch (TU Darmstadt) — comprehensive RE-free magnet research
Danna Freedman (MIT) — high-pressure synthesis, MnBi₂
James Rondinelli (Northwestern) — computational magnet design, symmetry analysis
Jiadong Zang (U. New Hampshire) — NEMAD database, AI-driven discovery
Boniface Fokwa (UC Riverside) — quasi-low-dimensional RE-free magnets