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New type of superconductor

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doug

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This is definitely off topic but I post it here since, as researcher in solid state physics, I find it pretty exciting and it may someday lead to more powerful electric motors among other things.

Here are a couple articles that should be accessible to a reader with a basic science background:

Powerful superconductor is in a class all its own

Iron Exposed as High-Temperature Superconductor: Scientific American

Part of the reason this is interesting is that if you are familiar with any basic theory of superconductivity, using iron (a ferromagnetic material) is totally counterintuitive. This really is a new class superconductor.