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Swiss High-Temperature Superconductor Discovery Could Change The Grid Forever

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:51:51 +0000

A team of researchers from EPFL’s Laboratory for Quantum Magnetism could change the way people transmit electricity and the efficiency of the process. Their study on how extremely small particles act in conjunction with magnetism may give other physicists a clue on how to build high-temperature superconductors. By creating a layer of ceramic material just […]

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Scientists Explain Limitations of High Temperature Superconductors in High Currents

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:54:34 +0000

Since their discovery in late 1980s, superconductors were thought to revolutionize everything that had an electric current flowing, but allowing it to pass through more easily, and with much less heat produced. Ultra-efficient magnetic trains had been envisioned, then, but ...

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New Research Showing Fabrication Pattern for Higher-Temperature Superconductors

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:13:43 +0000

Researchers from Princeton University, Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry in Japan, using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy, have discovered how in a superconducting material, at a nano-scale level, regions with stronger superconductivity helped regions with weaker superconductivity survive when exposed to higher temperature.

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New Iron-Based Material Could Be The Best High Temperature Superconductor

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:24:26 +0000

Following the dream of realizing a high-temperature superconductor, Cornell University researchers just found something about iron-based materials: they can be made to resemble electronic liquid crystals.

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New Discovery Sheds Light on Way to High Temperature Superconductivity

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:50:00 +0000

High temperature superconductors are today what some other time the philosopher's stone used to be. Research done by Gennady Logvenov and his colleagues from the Brookehaven National Laboratory in Upton, NY sheds a new light on how scientists could engineer materials to obtain their desiderate: room temperature superconductors.

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Germanium Hydride to Become High Temperature Viable Superconductor

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:10:52 +0000

The evolution of energy storage is not enough if we don't also evolve the energy transportation methods. That's why superconductors are not only good for us, but are also necessary in some applications where heat and energy loss, in general, have no place.

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Room Temperature Superconductors: a Step Away

Ovidiu Sandru — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:37:42 +0000

Imagine your television set working for 0.0001Watt, or your electric car charged by the Sun as you go. Imagine almost never ending batteries powering cool engines, no power lost through heat.

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