But K. Alex Müller and J. Georg Bednorz at the Zurich laboratory of I. B. M. believed that a ceramic material might be able to superconduct at warmer temperatures. |
That led to a rush to find similar materials that would superconduct at even higher temperatures. |
It's a ceramic material that was the first found to superconduct above the temperature of liquid nitrogen. |
To make this material superconduct, the researchers used a method that they have pioneered on other polymers over the past year: they built it into a so-called field-effect transistor. |
In the decades that followed, we discovered that most of the elements in the periodic table superconduct, and some alloys do too. |
National Laboratory, produced the first 10-meter-long ribbons that can superconduct electricity at 100 amperes per centimeter of ribbon width. |