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South Korean Scientists Claim Ambient Temp. Superconductivity
TimFox:
MRI superconductors need to work at high current and high magnetic field, not just superconduct at a useful temperature.
gnuarm:
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--- Quote from: gnuarm on July 27, 2023, 05:35:59 pm ---I thought we already had superconductors at liquid nitrogen temperatures? That's much easier to come by than liquid helium. You can easily make liquid nitrogen in any facility.
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Liquid nitrogen can only get down to 60K. That's used for external cooling. The internal MRI magnet materials need to get down to 4K for superconductivity:
https://mriquestions.com/superconductive-design.html
The cooling apparatus are the most expensive and difficult part of MRI machines. Eliminating the need for complex liquid helium containment would make MRI machines far cheaper and mobile.
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I'm sure that's true for various MRI machines. But superconductors exist at temperatures well above 60 °K.
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Yes but none of those are suitable for applications where we need to use liquid helium (MRIs being the most common case) which is what I thought you were referring to (since that's the example I was pointing at). :)
Some stuff can superconduct with liquid nitrogen but its still hardly ambient temp! ;D
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Which is what I said, no?
--- Quote ---I thought we already had superconductors at liquid nitrogen temperatures?
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