Gradient soft magnetic materials produced by additive manufacturing from non-magnetic powders

Additive manufacturing (AM) allows printing parts of complex geometries that cannot be produced by standard technologies. Besides, AM provides the possibility to create gradient materials with different structural and physical properties. We, for first time, printed soft magnetic from paramagnetic powders (316L steel Cu-12Al-2Fe (in wt.%) aluminium bronze)). The properties can adjusted during in-situ process. saturated magnetization value alloys reaches 49 emu g−1. changes in have been attributed formation BCC phase after mixing two FCC-dominated powders. Moreover, composition obtained predicted reasonable accuracy CALPHAD approach, thus providing efficient optimization performance. results provide new prospects alloys.