Moscow researchers create superior superconductor for multiple uses

Moscow scientists are said to have successfully completed Russia?s first synthesis of a new type of superconductor that may have wide economic applications.

The press service of the Moscow-based Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI, a Russian Academy of Sciences research arm) announced that its scientists have successfully completed Russia?s first-ever synthesis of a new type of high-temperature superconducting materials based on iron, nickel and cobalt, which is believed to have wide economic applications in a near future. The new superconductors grown in an LPI lab belong to what is known in physics as 1-2-2 family of substances containing barium, iron and arsenic. Their synthesis is assumed to be easier than that of other families (like copper-containing ones, for example), and they possess ?interesting properties,? LPI says. ?First of all, in spite of long study, we still do not fully understand the electron pairing mechanism in the substances...