{"id":225403,"date":"2025-11-19T02:07:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-cable-design-mitigates-flaws-in-superconducting-wires"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:07:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T08:07:32","slug":"new-cable-design-mitigates-flaws-in-superconducting-wires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/new-cable-design-mitigates-flaws-in-superconducting-wires","title":{"rendered":"New cable design mitigates flaws in superconducting wires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-cable-design-mitigates-flaws-in-superconducting-wires2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When current flows through a wire, it doesn\u2019t always have a perfect path. Tiny defects within the wire mean current must travel a more circuitous route, a problem for engineers and manufacturers seeking reliable equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Through a partnership with industry, researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University\u2019s Center for Advanced Power Systems and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory have supported the development of a design that uses multiple strands of superconducting tape to create a cable, minimizing the chance of failure from defective spots within a wire. When current encounters a defect in one wire, it jumps to a neighboring wire to continue moving.<\/p>\n<p>The research, which is published in <a href=\"https:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1361-6668\/adedbd\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Superconductor Science and Technology<\/i><\/a>, helps to solve engineering and manufacturing challenges for manufacturers and could lead to more efficient and less expensive wires for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electric+motors\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric motors<\/a> and many other superconducting coil applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When current flows through a wire, it doesn\u2019t always have a perfect path. Tiny defects within the wire mean current must travel a more circuitous route, a problem for engineers and manufacturers seeking reliable equipment. Through a partnership with industry, researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and Florida State University\u2019s Center for Advanced Power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225403","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}