Superconductivity and Novel Superconducting Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Electronic Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2024 | Viewed by 190
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superconducting
Interests: superconductivity; critical currents; cables manufacturing
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Dear Colleagues,
In today’s world, electricity has become a such widespread consumer good, so much so that, in the event of its absence or shortage, poverty is assigned to the affected area. The reason for this is the fact that many of the technologies used by humanity require electricity to operate. But can anything else be achieved in a field in which Edison, Tesla, Faraday, and Siemens have achieved so much? We are on the threshold of new technological implementations that will replace old technologies, and the key word here is superconductivity. This phenomenon has been elusive to science for a long time, largely because it has been occurring at seemingly low temperatures, which have been available to our civilization for less than 150 years. The replacement of direct and alternating currents with superconducting currents is already taking place, not within domestic spaces, but rather in factories and in infrastructure.
This Special Issue will review the state of knowledge and the level of implementation of the superconducting phenomenon in terms of prototypes and ready-made technologies. It is very important to implement new superconducting materials into known technologies and to produce superconducting cables and tapes, which are the most interesting and crucial for energy, storage (SMES), and processing productions (fusion). The implementation of superconducting technologies into electro-energetic grids is also important for safety (current limiters) and for efficiency—ultimately reducing loses (zero losses current transmission cables).
Dr. Michał Babij
Dr. Daniel Gajda
Prof. Dr. Andrzej Zaleski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- superconductivity
- superconducting materials
- superconducting current
- superconducting cables
- tapes and coils
- technologies and applications
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