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First U.S.-Built Focusing Magnet for LHC Upgrade Arrives at CERN, Uses New Superconducting Material 

January 2, 2024 Editorial Staff Comments Off on First U.S.-Built Focusing Magnet for LHC Upgrade Arrives at CERN, Uses New Superconducting Material 

After twenty years of research, development, testing and production, the United States is now shipping state-of-the-art superconducting accelerator magnets to CERN for the high-luminosity upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. At the heart of these powerful magnets is a new superconducting material used for the first time in a particle accelerator. Earlier, prototypes performed successfully but exhibited shortcomings, however, the dedicated teams of scientists and engineers overcame them with some design and production adjustments.

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Technique Tunes into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

May 5, 2022 Guest Blog Comments Off on Technique Tunes into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

Ever since graphene, a thin carbon sheet just one-atom thick, was discovered more than 15 years ago, the wonder material became a workhorse in materials science research. From this body of work, other researchers learned that slicing graphene along the edge of its honeycomb lattice creates one-dimensional zigzag graphene strips or nanoribbons with exotic magnetic properties […]

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Scientists Print Magnetic Liquid Droplets to Create a Revolutionary New Material at Berkeley National Lab

September 10, 2019 Editorial Staff Comments Off on Scientists Print Magnetic Liquid Droplets to Create a Revolutionary New Material at Berkeley National Lab

Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have made a new material that is both liquid and magnetic, opening the door to a new area of science and potential product development in magnetic soft matter. Basically, they have managed to print magnetic liquid droplets. Their […]