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Article: Worldwide superconductor market to grow rapidly by 2002.
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- Ceramic Industry
- Article date:
- April 1, 1998
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Though high-temperature superconductors currently represent only about 3% of the total market, this segment will see double-digit growth over the next few years.
Superconductors are materials that lose all resistance to the flow of electricity when cooled below a critical transition temperature. The phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered in 1911, but practical superconducting materials were not found until the 1960s. Some 25 elements and a vast number of alloys and compounds have so far been discovered to be superconducting.
Today, superconducting metals and alloys are being used in a variety of commercial applications in electronics and medicine, but ...