#ICYMI The MagLab just received a grant to build even more powerful superconducting magnets: https://t.co/TSTgdrfq1H— National MagLab (@NationalMagLab) October 2, 2018
https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2018/09/29/maglab-florida-state-receives-4-2-m-grant-develop-next-generation-magnets/1446924002/
The home of the world’s strongest continuous high-field magnet is looking for new frontiers to explore.
To get there, the National MagLab has the backing of the National Science Foundation, which has awarded the Florida State University-based research lab a new $4.2-million grant. The funding is in addition to the $44.8 million the MagLab is receiving from the NSF this year.
The money will be used by researchers to develop the next generation of high-field superconducting magnets. The current magnets at the MagLab generate high fields by conducting enormous amounts of electricity in a coil.
The premise is these materials have the possibility of generating stronger fields than low-temperature superconductors such as niobium-tin and niobium-titanium, which have been used for years in MRI machines and are standard in research laboratories.
Low-temperature superconductors work only at extremely cold temperatures and under fields of 25 teslas, according to a lab release. A tesla is a unit of magnetic field; a typical refrigerator magnet generates a field of about 0.01 tesla.
High-temperature superconductors operating at higher temperatures and in higher magnetic fields, top 50 teslas.
This makes them promising for use in next-generation superconducting magnets.
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