The effect of Sm-rich liquid phase （Sm2Co3） on magnetic properties and microstructure of 2：17-type Sin-Co magnet was studied. Three phases existed in liquid phase ingot, and took on white, dark grey and grey, respectively. It was found that the composition of the grey area was similar to the nominal one. Our results indicated that the optimal composition was obtained at 3 wt.% liquid phase added, and the magnetic properties were B^I 1.58 kGs, Hci〉26 kOe, （BH）m=29.51 MGOe. Br increased by 3%, Hci was 13 times larger, and （B/-/）m was 6 times bigger than none liquid phase magnets. Moreover, with the aging time decreasing from 20 to 8 h, the squareness of the demagnetization curves got better, while the coercivity of the samples decreased. It revealed that Sm（Co,Cu）5 phase also precipitated at particle boundaries. It maybe also enhanced the coercivity.
The effects of Nb on the thermal stability and impact toughness of ultra-high intrinsic coercivity of Nd-Fe-B magnets were investigated.The results showed that the addition of Nb could improve the thermal stability,and obviously increased the impact toughness of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets.The optimum thermal stability of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets was obtained when the content of Nb was 1.0 at.%.The maximum impact toughness of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets was obtained when the content of Nb was 1.5 at.%,but the magnetic properties of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets drastically deteriorated when the content of Nb increased from 1.0 at.% to 1.5 at.%.The microstructure showed that overfull Nb addition made many ultra-fine grains get together,which led to the density of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets decline and drastically deteriorated the magnetic properties of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets.
