{"id":31610,"date":"2016-11-02T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T17:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-induce-superconductivity-in-non-superconducting-materials"},"modified":"2017-04-24T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T02:25:13","slug":"physicists-induce-superconductivity-in-non-superconducting-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/physicists-induce-superconductivity-in-non-superconducting-materials","title":{"rendered":"Physicists induce superconductivity in non-superconducting materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-induce-superconductivity-in-non-superconducting-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Houston have reported a new method for inducing superconductivity in non-superconducting materials, demonstrating a concept proposed decades ago but never proven.<\/p>\n<p>The technique can also be used to boost the efficiency of known superconducting materials, suggesting a new way to advance the commercial viability of superconductors, said Paul C.W. Chu, chief scientist at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH (TcSUH) and corresponding author of a paper describing the work, published Oct. 31 in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperconductivity is used in many things, of which MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is perhaps the best known,\u201d said Chu, the physicist who holds the TLL Temple Chair of Science at UH. But the technology used in health care, utilities and other fields remains expensive, in part because it requires expensive cooling, which has limited widespread adoption, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016-10-physicists-superconductivity-non-superconducting-materials.html\">http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2016&#45;10-physicists-superconductivit...rials.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Houston have reported a new method for inducing superconductivity in non-superconducting materials, demonstrating a concept proposed decades ago but never proven. The technique can also be used to boost the efficiency of known superconducting materials, suggesting a new way to advance the commercial viability of superconductors, said Paul C.W. Chu, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49657,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31610\/revisions\/49657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}