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- Address
- 305-0047 1-2-1 Sengen Tsukuba Ibaraki JAPAN [Access]
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Research
- Permanent magnets (processing, properties, and microstructure), Finite element micromagnetic simulations. ,Microstructure characterization (electron microscopy and atom probe field ion microscopy).
PublicationsNIMS affiliated publications since 2004.
Research papers
- Anton Bolyachkin, Ekaterina Dengina, Nikita Kulesh, Xin Tang, Hossein Sepehri-Amin, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Kazuhiro Hono. Tomography-based digital twin of Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets. npj Computational Materials. 10 [1] (2024) 34 10.1038/s41524-024-01218-5 Open Access
- P. Tozman, G. Hrkac, C.E. Patrick, J.B. Staunton, T. Saito, T. Sasaki, T. Ohkubo, H. Sepehri-Amin. Effect of Co on twin formation and magnetic properties of Sm(Fe,Ti,V)12 alloys. Scripta Materialia. 258 (2025) 116491 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2024.116491 Open Access
- Hiroaki Mamiya, Balachandran Jeyadevan, Eiji Kita, Reisho Onodera, Tetsushi Taguchi, Nikita Kulesh, Hossein Sepehri Amin. Figures of merit and screening approaches for evaluating heat generation in magnetic nanoparticles for hyperthermia. Materials Today Nano. 35 (2026) 100869 10.1016/j.mtnano.2026.100869 Open Access
Books
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, HIROSAWA, Satoshi, HONO, Kazuhiro. Advances in Nd-Fe-B Based Permanent Magnets. Zoe Kruze, 2018
- BOLYACHKIN, Anton, SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, HONO, Kazuhiro. Physical Metallurgy of Permanent Magnets. Physical Metallurgy. Elsevier, 2026, 77.
Proceedings
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, OHKUBO, Tadakatsu, HONO, Kazuhiro, K. Guth, O. Gutfleisch. Anisotropy inducement mechanism in hydrogen disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR) processed Nd-Fe-B powders. proceeding of REPM2014. (2014) 406-408
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, OHKUBO, Tadakatsu, M. Yano , T. Shoji , T. Schrefl, HONO, Kazuhiro. Microstructure and coercivity of hot deformed Nd-Fe-B anisotropic magnets with non-magnetic grain boundary phase. Proceeding of Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and their Applications REPM. (2012) 71-76
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, OHKUBO, Tadakatsu, HONO, Kazuhiro. Atom probe study on the grain boundary chemistry of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets. Rare-Earth Magnets and their applications. (2010) 47-50
Presentations
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein. Anisotropy inducement mechanism in hydrogen disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR) processed Nd-Fe-B powders. Rare Earth Permanent Magnets and Their Applications (REPM2014). 2014
- BOLYACHKIN, Anton, KULESH, Nikita, TANG, Xin, SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein. Revisiting Coercivity Mechanism in Nd-Fe-B Magnets: A Micromagnetic Study of Grain Alignment Effect. 2026 International Symposium on Advanced Magnetic Materials and Applications (ISAMMA 2026). 2026 Invited
- LARSEN, Simon, TERADA, Noriki, MAMIYA, Hiroaki, TANG, Xin, SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, D. Okuyama, H. Saito, T. Nakajima. Controlling the Interslab Magnetic Interactions in the Gd5Ge4 Family of Magnetocaloric Compounds. 30th International Cryogenic Engineering Conference/International Cryogenic Materials Conference 2026. 2026
Misc
- MAMIYA, Hiroaki, TERADA, Noriki, K. Hiroi, T. Shinohara, SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein. Neutron Bragg Edge Spectroscopy for Developing Practical Magnetic Materials. MLF Annual Report. 2024 [2] (2026) 42-43
- Ken-ichi Uchida, Yuya Sakuraba, Hossein Sepehri-Amin. Foreword to the focus issue: materials science and technology for magnetic thermal management. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials. 26 [1] (2025) 2604891 10.1080/14686996.2025.2604891 Open Access
- SEPEHRI AMIN, Hossein, OHKUBO, Tadakatsu, HONO, Kazuhiro, K. Guth, O. Gutfleisch. Anisotropy inducement mechanism in hydrogen disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR) processed Nd-Fe-B powders. proceeding of REPM2014. (2014) 406-408
Published patent applications
- 磁性薄帯 (2026)
- 不揮発性磁気熱スイッチ材料、不揮発磁気的熱スイッチング素子及び不揮発性磁気熱スイッチ材料の制御方法 (2025)
- ハイブリッド横型熱電発電素子およびこれを用いた発電方法 (2025)
Society memberships
日本金属学会, 日本磁気学会
Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials
Magnetic materials for green energy conversions
Permanent Magnets, Soft magnets, Magnetocaloric, Hysteresis, Microstructure
Overview
Magnetic materials are essential component in the green energy conversions and play a critical role in realizing carbon neutrality. Our research is dedicated to the development of bulk magnetic materials with three major research focuses on the permanent magnets, soft magnets, and magnetocaloric materials through materials development, microstructure design, and hysteresis engineering.
Novelty and originality
New demands on magnetic materials have urged researchers to design materials and their microstructures to realize desired magnetic properties. For this purpose, we are using a worldwide unique combinatorial research approach involving micromagnetic simulations, data science, physical property/microstructure characterizations, and materials processing.
Details
Our research has three main areas: (i) Development of high performance permanent magnets without reliance on scarce elements and divergence of rare earth elements. Improvement of thermal stability of magnets and transverse thermoelectric properties of permanent magnets are also being investigated. We are also working on (ii) the development of soft magnetic materials with low core losses for high-frequency applications, and (iii) magnetoclaoric materials with giant and reversible magnetoclaoric effect for room-temperature applications such as magnetic air conditioning and cryogenic applications for gas liquefaction. For these purposes, we use a combinatorial research approach as demonstrated in Figure 1.
Summary
The development of high performance magnetic materials requires an understanding of the complicated phenomenon of various physical and magnetic properties of materials that are cross-coupled with multi-scale microstructural features. This is the focus of our research interest to develop novel materials with desired magnetic properties.


