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• BASF research boosts its innovative strength

  BASF had sales of approximately €8.5 billion in 2012 from new products that have been on the market for less than five years. “Our research Verbund has increased its innovative strength to a new level of performance in 2012,” said Dr. Andreas Kreimeyer, member of the Board of Executive Directors of more

• Light tsunami in a superconductor
  

  In their latest experiment, Prof. Andrea Cavalleri from the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter at the Hamburg-based Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) and Dr. Michael Gensch from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) investigated together with other co more

• A new look at high-temperature superconductors

  While the phenomenon of superconductivity has been known for more than a century, the temperature at which it occurs has remained too low for any practical applications. The discovery of "high-temperature" superconductors in the 1980s led to speculation that a surge of new discoveries might quickly more

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• Plastic Forming of High‐Tc YBa2Cu3O7−x Bulk Superconductors

  The large bulk high‐Tc YBa2Cu3O7−x (YBCO) superconductor samples were prepared by plastic‐forming method. We examined the effects of the solvent and the crystallinity of YBCO powder on the composition, crystallinity, and superconducting properties of YBCO sheet samples (sample size: 50 mm × 50 mm× more

• Lone Pair Effect, Structural Distortions, and Potential for Superconductivity in Tl Perovskites

  Drawing the analogy to BaBiO3, we investigate via ab initio electronic structure calculations potential new superconductors of the type ATlX3 with A = Rb and Cs and X = F, Cl, and Br, with a particular emphasis on RbTlCl3. On the basis of chemical reasoning, supported by the calculations, we show th more

• Synthesis of Spherical Superconductors

  The cuprate superconductor YBa2Cu3O7-δ (Y123) has been synthesised for the first time in a spherical morphology. The use of carboxymethyl-dextran in a pre-formed, spherical morphology enables not only the engineering of this new macromorphological motif, but also crystallochemical control of the sup more

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