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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819228503321

Titolo

Magnesium diboride sourcebook / / editor, D.J. Fisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Switzerland] : , : Trans Tech, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

3-03813-084-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Collana

Defect and diffusion forum, , 1012-0386 ; ; v. 250

Altri autori (Persone)

FisherD. J

Disciplina

546.392

Soggetti

Magnesium diboride

Diffusion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Magnesium Diborid; Table of Contents; Abstracts

Sommario/riassunto

This substance is very much a material for the new millennium, since its new manifestation as a high-temperature superconductor can be dated precisely from the seminal 2001 Nature paper (1st March, p63), Superconductivity at 39K in Magnesium Diboride, by J.Nagamatsu, N.Nakagawa, T.Muranaka, Y.Zenitani and J.Akimitsu of the Physics Department of Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo. Until then, it had been seen and used only as a rather nondescript ceramic/abrasive. The current volume is intended to show the full breadth of work which has been done in the relatively short period since its 're-discov