FERROFLUID

The world leader in ferrofluid technology, Ferrotec ferrofluid products are used in many areas of ferrofluid technology, from audio speakers to domain detection, material separation, biomedical research and more... Magnetic fluid technology was first licensed by NASA to AVCO Corporation, Wilmington, MA in the 1960's, under the direction of Dr. Ron Rosensweig. The name ferrofluid was first coined by Rosensweig et al in 1967 in a contract research report funded by NASA. Commercialization of ferrofluids began in 1968 with the founding of Ferrofluidics Corporation by R.E. Rosensweig and R. Moskowitz. The official name for the product was given as ferrofluid. Many possible applications were envisioned for ferrofluids. Loudspeaker technology was one of them, and continues to be one of the largest market segments, going into over 300 million loudspeakers each year at over 300 different companies. Since then, Ferrotec Corporation, formerly Ferrofluidics, has branched out into many areas of..

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