Superconducting Materials: Properties and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Today, 109 years after the discovery of superconductivity in mercury, the list of known superconductors consists already of thousands of systems, belonging to a variety of structural and chemical families. Even with such extended empirical knowledge, the prediction and design of new superconductors is, at best, challenging, especially in the case of high-T_c materials. The technological importance of superconductors is well established in areas such as the generation of high magnetic fields, but the future applications, such as quantum computing and extended lossless power transmission lines, rely heavily on the possibility to apply the paradigm of materials by design to the field of superconducting materials.

The goal of this Special Issue is to present the recent advances in the understanding of superconducting materials: from the structure–property relationship, ab initio modelling of superconductors, and the prediction of the occurrence of superconductivity, through examples of new materials and families, to the processing and application of superconductors in electrical and electronic devices.

Dr. Michał J. Winiarski
Guest Editor

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