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RESEARCH DEMYSTIFIES QUANTUM PROPERTIES OF EXOTIC MATERIALS, December 15
International team shows collapse of Fermi volume in quantum critical matters

Modern materials science has been a boon for electronics, providing average consumers with palm-sized computers that would have filled a room just a few years ago for instance. But the push to create materials with radically new electronic properties has also produced a host of experimental results that textbook theories simply cannot explain.

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SUPERCONDUCTORS FOR ELECTRICAL, DEFENSE, SPACE, MEDICAL APPLICATIONS, December 15
A Wright State engineering professor Sharmila Mukhopadhyay recently received a $950,000 grant for superconductor research with applications that interest the electric power generation industry, the military, space technologists and the medical community.

"Superconductors can transmit electric current with zero resistance," she explained, "and our research is centered on finding ways to make these materials more efficient and economical." She said copper wire is the main conductor now in use, but transmission lines can carry significantly more power if copper can be replaced by superconducting cables. The superconducting material of choice is an oxide of yttrium, barium and copper that will be coated on metal coils.

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