Superconductor Powered Toyota Shows Increased Power
Sumitomo has shown a prototype of a car (a Toyota - shown in picture) that uses special type of engine, a liquid-nitrogen cooled one. The use of liquid nitrogen makes usual copper conductors have superconducting properties.
German Researcher & Team Debunk Room Temperature Superconductors
I remember reading about how superconductors were to revolutionize transportation, computing, telecommunications, energy and industry. I also remember with amazement the time I made...
Chinese Super-MagLev Train Could Reach 1,800 MPH
The Applied Superconductivity Laboratory of Southwest Jiaotong University, China, says that its new Super-Maglev train could reach speeds of up to 1,800 mph, but...
Superconducting Ink Boosts Efficiency of Solar Water Heaters
Mexican researchers developed a superconducting ink, containing nano particles, which can boost the efficiency of solar water heaters by as much as seventy percent.
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Uranium-Based Material Could Lead to Better Superconductors
Mention uranium, and you may think of two applications right off the bat, nuclear power generation and atomic weapons. These two things may bring...
SUPRAPOWER Project to Develop Superconductor Wind Turbines for EU
Despite the clean energy provided by wind turbines, they remain expensive to build and install, especially the offshore type. To help reduce this cost,...
Quasi-one-dimensional Metallic Conductivity for Faster, Advanced Electronics
Since its discovery in 2004, researchers have been exploring 2D electron gas due to its unique electric properties and how it could be of...
Researchers Make One More Step Towards Metallic Hydrogen as Superconductor
A team of scientists from Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook announced this week in a specialized publication that they discovered, at least theoretically, how to turn hydrogen into a metal at significantly lower pressures than ever thought and make a superconductor out of it.
Breakthrough Iron-Based Superconductors Pave the Way for Energy-Intensive Technologies
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory scientists have developed an iron-based high performance superconducting wire, paving the way for some of...
Superconductors to get a low temperature boost (-180°C) from Laser-based refrigerator
University of New Mexico researchers have surpassed themselves in a laser-based cooling project. Professor Mansoor Sheik-Bahae (et al.) and other researchers from the University of Pisa, Italy and the Los Alamos Institute created the world's first all-solid-state cryocooler, that can be used from cooling infrared sensors to superconductors.
