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Squeezing out the current

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In spite of their promise, practical applications of high-temperature cuprate superconductors have been hard to come by. The development of a method to fabricate round wires of the cuprate system Bi-2212 may begin to change this.

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Figure 1: Examples of different forms of superconducting wire.

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  1. Joseph V. Minervini is at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA,

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Minervini, J. Squeezing out the current. Nature Mater 13, 326–327 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat3931

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