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news release: Russian
scientists create steel-strong superconductor
June 6 -- A new class of nanocrystalline materials was created in
Russia, the Expert weekly said. It reported on the results of the 4th Russian
Innovations Contest. The "best innovation project" comes from academician Andrei
Bochvar National Inorganic Materials Research Institute in Moscow. The title is
Nanostructural Electrical Wires with Anomalous High Strength and Electrical
Conductivity.
Researchers have developed a complicated method of making copper-niobium (Cu-Nb)
wires strong as steel and featuring an electric conductivity of 50-70% of
superpure copper.
According to experts, their application in engineering, automobile and aerospace
industries is promising.
The innovate technology from the Moscow institute makes a reality big magnetic
systems calculated for record-high impulse magnetic fields. Such wires went to
make the impulse magnets creating a magnetic field of 75-tesla induction at the
University of Florida in the United States. In the near plans, is a supergiant
of 90-tesla induction on the basis of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Nanotechnologies have to do with supersmall objects (1 nanometer is one
billionth of meter). Manipulations with the tiniest physical substances - atoms
and molecules - offer tremendous prospects. Nanotechnologies may radically
change medicine, the energy sector, biotechnologies, electronics and other
spheres.
The Russian Innovations Contest was organized by the Expert weekly, the AFK
Sistema corporation and the Russian Science and Education Ministry. |
