{"id":148022,"date":"2022-10-12T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-dense-potential-of-nanostructured-superconductors"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:23:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T18:23:40","slug":"the-dense-potential-of-nanostructured-superconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-dense-potential-of-nanostructured-superconductors","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018dense\u2019 potential of nanostructured superconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-dense-potential-of-nanostructured-superconductors.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From superfast magnetic levitation trains and computer chips to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and particle accelerators, superconductors are electrifying various aspects of our life. Superconductivity is an interesting property that allows materials to transfer moving charges without any resistance, below a certain critical point. This implies that superconducting materials can transfer electrical energy in a highly efficient manner without loss in the form of heat, unlike many conventional conductors.<\/p>\n<p>Almost two decades ago scientists discovered superconductivity in a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new material <\/a>\u2014magnesium diboride, or MgB<sub>2<\/sub>. There has been a resurgence in the of popularity MgB<sub>2 <\/sub>due to its low cost, superior superconducting abilities, high critical current density (which means that compared to other materials, MgB<sub>2 <\/sub>remains a semiconductor even when larger amounts of electric current is passed through it), and trapped magnetic fields arising from strong pinning of the vortices\u2014which are cylindrical current loops or tubes of magnetic flux that penetrate a superconductor.<\/p>\n<p>The intermetallic MgB<sub>2 <\/sub>also allows adjustability of its properties. For instance, the critical current density values (<i>J<sub>c<\/sub><\/i>) of MgB<sub>2<\/sub> can be improved by decreasing the grain size and increasing the number of grain boundaries. Such adjustability is not observed in conventional layered superconductors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From superfast magnetic levitation trains and computer chips to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machines and particle accelerators, superconductors are electrifying various aspects of our life. Superconductivity is an interesting property that allows materials to transfer moving charges without any resistance, below a certain critical point. This implies that superconducting materials can transfer electrical energy in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}