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Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials
Taking a technology from the laboratory to industry is a long and resource-consuming process. Discovered more than a century ago, the phenomenon of superconductivity is testament to this process. Despite the promise of this technology, currently the only major use of superconductors outside the labo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13204652 |
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description | Taking a technology from the laboratory to industry is a long and resource-consuming process. Discovered more than a century ago, the phenomenon of superconductivity is testament to this process. Despite the promise of this technology, currently the only major use of superconductors outside the laboratory is in MRI machines. The advent of high-temperature superconductors in 1986 heralded a new dawn. Machines which do not require cooling with liquid helium are a very attractive target. A myriad range of different superconductors were rapidly discovered over the next decade. This process of discovery continues to this day with, most recently, a whole new class, the pnictides, being discovered in 2006. Many different usages have been identified, including in motors, generators, wind turbines, fault current limiters, and high-current low-loss cables. This Special Issue looks at some of the different factors which will help to realise these devices and thereby bring about a superconducting world |
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spelling | pubmed-76031002020-11-01 Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials Coombs, Tim Materials (Basel) Editorial Taking a technology from the laboratory to industry is a long and resource-consuming process. Discovered more than a century ago, the phenomenon of superconductivity is testament to this process. Despite the promise of this technology, currently the only major use of superconductors outside the laboratory is in MRI machines. The advent of high-temperature superconductors in 1986 heralded a new dawn. Machines which do not require cooling with liquid helium are a very attractive target. A myriad range of different superconductors were rapidly discovered over the next decade. This process of discovery continues to this day with, most recently, a whole new class, the pnictides, being discovered in 2006. Many different usages have been identified, including in motors, generators, wind turbines, fault current limiters, and high-current low-loss cables. This Special Issue looks at some of the different factors which will help to realise these devices and thereby bring about a superconducting world MDPI 2020-10-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7603100/ /pubmed/33086475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13204652 Text en © 2020 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Editorial Coombs, Tim Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title | Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title_full | Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title_fullStr | Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title_full_unstemmed | Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title_short | Engineering Properties of Superconducting Materials |
title_sort | engineering properties of superconducting materials |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7603100/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33086475 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13204652 |
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