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PostPosted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:35 pm    Post subject: Superconductors Reply with quote
Research in the field of superconductivity is reintensifying after essentially a 20-year break:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081113140422.htm

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The beginnings of what could be a breakthrough came in early 2008 when Japanese researchers announced discovery of a new class of iron-based HTc superconductors. In addition to being easier to shape into wires and otherwise commercialize than today's copper-oxides, such materials provide scientists fresh new subjects with which to develop and test theories about HTc superconductivity's origins.


http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/86/i42/html/8642cover.html

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Within a few months of the discovery of a new iron- and arsenic-containing superconductor, researchers in many labs responded with a whole slew of discoveries on related materials. It's anyone's guess at this point whether the new family of iron pnictides will include a future member with a Tc above the boiling of liquid nitrogen—let alone room temperature—and whether the new compounds will eventually lead to everyday applications for high-temperature superconductors.

For now, it's clear that the discovery has reinvigorated the field of superconductivity. The finding isn't the "event of a lifetime," aficionados say, but it is a powerful shot in the arm for an area of basic science that's closing in on its first century of life.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2011 3:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
An update on the state of superconducting technologies:

http://www.economist.com/node/21540385?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Far%2Fresistanceisfutile
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
State of superconductivity research at my alma meter, Rice:

http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2010/12/post_203.html
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