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MIT researchers find new mathematical relationship in superconductors

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have discovered a new mathematical relationship between material thickness, temperature and electrical resistance that appears to hold in all superconductors. The result could shed light on the nature of superconductivity and could also lead to better-engineered superconducting circuits for applications like quantum computing and...

Vector electromagnet at BESSY II creates 3D magnetic fields in samples

Together with Helmholz Centrum Berlin (HZB), teams from the Universität Regensburg, the Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruhr Universität Bochum have jointly set up a unique measurement station at BESSY II: a vector electromagnet consisting of three mutually perpendicular Helmholtz coils that enables setting the local magnetic field at the...

Balancing the Cryopreservation Equation

BioCision executives Dr. Maria Thompson, Dr. Eric Kunkel and Dr. Rolf Ehrhardt discuss the thawing arm of the "cryopreservation equation" and the need to strictly control temperature throughout the process.

SuperPower expands Quick Ship inventory

New segments have been added to SuperPower's Quick Ship inventory. The program enables the company to ship wire to clients in as little as 1-2 business days upon acceptance of a purchase order or pre-payment.

Neutrinos can deliver both full-on hits and “glancing blows”

In what they call a “weird little corner” of the already weird world of neutrinos, physicists have found evidence that neutrinos might be involved in a surprising reaction: interacting with a nucleus and leaving it basically untouched, inflicting no more than a glancing blow.

Accelerator-powered carbon dating

Accelerator mass spectrometry, an accelerator-driven form of carbon dating that requires only a tiny sample of the material, is advancing everything from archaeology to personalized medicine.

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Two-Phase Flows

Two-phase flows are those flows in which there is a mixture of two physical states (solid, liquid or vapor). In cryogenic applications, such flows are almost always a mixture of a cryogenic liquid along with its corresponding vapor. A mixture of liquid helium and helium vapor would be a typical...

Supercritical Fluids

A supercritical fluid is defined as a substance whose temperature and pressure exceed those of its critical point. Every pure substance has a critical point that is defined in thermodynamic space by a critical temperature and a corresponding critical pressure. For example, the critical point for helium has a critical...

Brayton Cycle

The Brayton cycle is one of the many thermodynamic cycles used to generate cooling at cryogenic temperatures. Strictly speaking, when referring to cooling we should call this the reverse Brayton cycle as the original Brayton cycle describes the process of power generation or propulsion via a gas turbine. In many...

Magnetic Levitation

From http://www.superconductors.org. Magnetic-levitation is an application where superconductors perform extremely well. Transport vehicles such as trains can be made to “float” on strong superconducting magnets, virtually eliminating friction between the train and its tracks. Not only would conventional electromagnets waste much of the electrical energy as heat, they would have...

Superconductivity

From Superpower website. History of Superconductivity Superconductivity was discovered in 1911 by the Dutch physicist, Heike Kammerlingh Onnes when he was able to liquefy helium by cooling it to 4 Kelvin, or -452°F. This enabled him to cool other materials close to absolute zero and investigate their electrical properties. He...

Medical Applications of Cryogenics

Neutron Therapy Cryogenics is at the heart of nuclear accelerators. Accelerators such as Fermilab’s Tevatron make neutron therapy for cancer possible. From Fermilab Today 4/20/09: Fermilab currently offers neutron therapy. But staff at Fermilab designed and built the proton accelerator used by the nation’s first hospital-based treatment center to use...

Nuclear Physics

Al Zeller National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab (NSCL) at Michigan State University zeller@nscl.msu.edu Cryogenics has a long history in nuclear physics. The technology has its origins in the use of cold traps for maintaining a vacuum, which is required to prevent beam loss and for generating high voltages used in acceleration....

An Issue of Pressure and Flow Rate in a Supply Tank

Please help solve this problem: A supply tank requires a vaporizer to generate sufficient pressure to pump stored fluid up into a vehicle or tank. The available head is limited as the tank level falls and it is important to minimize the system pressure drop to maintain the desired flow...

Using MLI on VJ Line Joints or Cryo Storage Tanks

When installing Multi Layer Insulation (MLI) blankets on VJ line joints or cryo storage tanks should they be wrapped and tied down tight or loose? These are usually pre-cut to size. Also should they have an access hole at the point of where the molecular sieve is installed to help...