Publications
Burkhardt, C., van Nielen, S., Awais, M., Bartolozzi, F., Blomgren, J., Ortiz, P., … Walton, A. (2023). An overview of Hydrogen assisted (Direct) recycling of Rare earth permanent magnets. Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 588, 171475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171475
Mishra A, Khoshsima S, Tomše T, Podmiljšak B, Šturm S, Burkhardt C, Žužek K. Short-Loop Recycling of Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets: A Sustainable Solution for the RE2Fe14B Matrix Phase Recovery. Materials. 2023; 16(19):6565. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16196565
Fischbacher, J., Hrushko, O., Hortschitz, W., & Schrefl, T. (2023). Micromagnetic study of the impact of grain boundaries on coercivity. Rare Earth Permanent Magnets (REPM), Birmingham. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10079299
Burkhardt C, Ortiz F, Daoud K, Björnfot T, Ahrentorp F, Blomgren J, Walton A. Automated High-Speed Approaches for the Extraction of Permanent Magnets from Hard-Disk Drive Components for the Circular Economy. Magnetism. 2024; 4(3):295-304. https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetism4030019
Tomaž Tomše, Benjamin Podmiljšak, Lavinia Scherf, Reto Kessler, Spomenka Kobe, Andraž Kocjan, Sašo Šturm, Kristina Žužek, Unravelling the intricacies of micro-nonuniform heating in field-assisted sintering of multiphase metallic microstructures, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Volume 328, 2024, 118405, ISSN 0924-0136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2024.118405
T. Tomše, “Microstructure Refinement of Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets Prepared via Spark-Plasma Sintering,” in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol. 60, no. 8, pp. 1-6, Aug. 2024, Art no. 2100406. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2024.3417611
Tomše, T., Ivekovič, A., Kocjan, A., Šturm, S. and Žužek, K. (2024), A Rapid Thermal-Radiation-Assisted Sintering Strategy for Nd–Fe–B-Type Magnets. Adv. Eng. Mater., 26: 2401404. https://doi.org/10.1002/adem.202401404
Tomše T, Kubelka P, Moreno López R, Fleissner P, Grau L, Zaplotnik M, Burkhardt C. Magnetic Performance and Anticorrosion Coating Stability of Thermally Demagnetized Nd-Fe-B Permanent Magnets for Reuse Applications. Materials. 2024; 17(23):5927. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17235927
Maarten Koese, Michael Parzer, Benjamin Sprecher, René Kleijn, Self-sufficiency of the European Union in critical raw materials for E-mobility, Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Volume 212, 2025, 108009, ISSN 0921-3449, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.108009.
Maarten Koese, Sander van Nielen, Jessie Bradley, René Kleijn, The dynamics of accelerating end-of-life rare earth permanent magnet recycling: A technological innovation systems approach, Applied Energy, Volume 388, 2025, 125707, ISSN 0306-2619, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2025.125707.
Khoshsima, S.; Vidmar, J.; Samardžija, Z.; Tomše, T.; Kušter, M.; Mishra, A.; Šturm, S.; Žužek, K. Environmentally Friendly Approach for Nd2Fe14B Magnetic Phase Extraction by Selective Chemical Leaching: A Proof-of-Concept Study. Materials 2023, 16, 5181. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16145181
Laura Grau, Fabian Burkhardt, Nicolas Moll, Stefan Rathfelder, Spomenka Kobe, Carlo Burkhardt, Effects of Contamination on the Recyclability of NdFeB Permanent Magnets via Short-Loop Processing: Review of Common Contaminants and Study on Ni Coating Residues, Recycling 2025, 10(6), 200; https://doi.org/10.3390/recycling10060200
Mihaela Rebernik Gracej, Tomaž Tomše, Benjamin Podmiljšak, Zoran Samardžija, Monika Kušter, Sorour Semsari Parapari, Nik Gračanin, Marjeta Maček Kržmanc, Laurence Schieren, Carlo Burkhardt, Johann Fischbacher, Thomas Schrefl, Sašo Šturm, Kristina Žužek, Single-grain grain-boundary engineering with Nd-Cu for sustainable recycling and reprocessing of Nd-Fe-B magnets, Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 1050, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2025.185605
