An electrodeposition replacement to the commonly used physical vapor deposition methods used in enhancing the coercivity of Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets has been proposed. Dysprosium was galvanostatically electroplated on Nd-Fe-B sintered magnets that were previously electrochemically coated with copper. Electroplated dysprosium films were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, depth profiling, scanning electron micrographs, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. XPS analysis after argon ion sputtering indicates that minor impurities are only superficial as their atomic fractions in the sample nearly disappear with increasing etching time. The electrochemistry of synthesized dysprosium bis(trifluromethylsulfonyl)imide dissolved in the air-and water-stable ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsuflonyl)imide was studied by cyclic voltammetry. Electroplating of metallic dysprosium was followed by a heat-treatment above the melting temperature of the Nd-rich phases of the sintered magnet base body whose magnetic characterization was performed in a hysteresis loop tracer for hard magnetic materials. Due to it being the highest energy product of any known magnet, Nd-Fe-B magnets are widely used in high performance electric machines. The energy product (BH) max, typically given in [kJoule/m 3 ] is the figure of merit for the maximum magnetic energy a permanent magnet can provide in a real application like an electrical motor. B denotes the magnetic flux density [in Tesla] in the material and H is the value of the magnetic field strength [in A/m] acting on the magnet. At zero field the magnet has a remanent polarization B r which gradually decreases with applied reverse fields, until the polarization changes direction (irreversibly) at negative field values of H cJ (=coercive field). The coercivity H cJ in Nd-Fe-B magnets decreases significantly with rising temperature and the operating temperature in motor applications can reach up to 200• C. 1 Magnet reversal or demagnetization of the permanent magnets has to be unconditionally avoided at any reverse field or thermal conditions during operation. The coercivity is the main material property limiting the application of high energy product Nd-Fe-B magnets. A method to overcome the risk of demagnetization at high temperatures is to further increase the coercivity of the material, so that H cJ and (BH) max still show adequate values at operating conditions. Up to now, this has been achieved by alloying heavy rare earth elements (HREE) such as dysprosium or terbium as substitution of light rare earth elements in the magnetic grains (Nd 2 Fe 14 B-phase) 2 on an industrial scale. HREE increase the magnetocrystalline anisotropy.3 Certain applications call for very high coercivity via substitution of Nd by Dy of up to about 10 wt%. However, substitution of LREEs by HREEs is not only very costly due to the scarcity of HREEs in comparison to Nd but causes a decrease in remanence B r due to anti-ferromagnetic coupling as well. A more efficient m...