Large-scale superconducting electric devices for power industry depend critically on wires
with high critical current densities at temperatures where cryogenic losses are tolerable. This …

This review paper illustrates the main normal and superconducting state properties of
magnesium diboride, a material known since the early 1950s but only recently discovered to …

The ongoing global pandemic caused by the human coronavirus, severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has infected millions of people and claimed …

This review focuses on the most important features of the 40 K superconductor MgB 2—the
weakly interacting multiple bands (the σ and π bands) and the distinct multiple …

Superconducting magnets have a variety of industrial, medical and research applications.
This review discusses the prospects for MgB 2 superconductor for practical magnet …

High density nanocrystalline MgB 2 bulk superconductors with distinctly improved pinning
were prepared by mechanical alloying of Mg and B powders at ambient temperatures …

An overview of the current state of development of MgB2 wires and tapes prepared by
several techniques is presented, based on the known literature data and our own results …

In spite of the relatively short time dedicated to the development of magnesium diboride
conductors since its discovery in early 2001, a substantial improvement was soon achieved …

Magneto-optical imaging reveal that below 10 K the penetration of magnetic flux in MgB 2
films is dominated by dendritic structures abruptly formed in response to an applied field …

Ti-doped MgB 2 superconductors with different doping levels were prepared by solid-state
reaction at ambient pressure. The density, diamagnetic signal, and J c of the samples …