Designed 3D architectures of high-temperature superconductors

Chem Commun (Camb). 2013 Apr 14;49(29):2974-6. doi: 10.1039/c3cc38271k.

Abstract

Self-supporting superconducting replicas of pasta shapes are reported, yielding products of differing 3D architectures. Functioning high-temperature superconductor wires are developed and refined from replicas of spaghetti, demonstrating a unique sol-gel processing technique for the design and synthesis of novel macroscopic morphologies of complex functional materials.