How to Use superconductor in a Sentence

superconductor

noun
  • That was a record high temperature for a superconductor at the time.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • No one has ever made a topological superconductor, at least not for sure.
    — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2019
  • In superconductors, groups of two electrons form Cooper pairs.
    — ArsTechnica, 3 June 2026
  • Then, in 2018, a new superconductor opened physicists’ eyes wider.
    — Charlie Wood, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2025
  • In a superconductor, two electrons bond together to form a Cooper pair.
    — Zhixin Wang, The Conversation, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Scientists can now use this model to test new theories and learn more, which could help inform better superconductors.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Physicists hunting for new superconductors often look for a very specific shape hidden in their data—a dome.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 8 Mar. 2026
  • It’s often joked that half the researchers in the field of quantum superconductors can trace an academic lineage to Clarke.
    — Eli Levenson-Falk, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Known as high-temperature superconductors, the magnets are stronger than the copper ones used in older tokamaks.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN, 19 Sep. 2024
  • This approach will greatly speed up superconductor discovery in the future.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • When cooled to a few degrees above absolute zero, these metals become superconductors.
    — Eli Levenson-Falk, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For decades, scientists have sought superconductors that work at room temperatures.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The most time-consuming part is superconductor magnet-training.
    — Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • This avoids the complex machinery needed to cool superconductors in each vehicle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 May 2023
  • The next big step — one that remains to be taken — is to create a room temperature superconductor without these extreme pressures.
    — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • Scientists have been studying superconductors for more than a century.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • In the stages above 4K, the wires are made of silver, and below they are made from a niobium-titanium superconductor.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 8 Dec. 2025
  • But the low temperatures required mean that superconductors can only be used in specialized settings.
    — Will Henshall, Time, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The ore contains the rare-earth metal niobium, which is used in steel production and becomes a superconductor when cooled to low temperatures.
    — Lori Youmshajekian, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2024
  • In conventional superconductors, these pairs are weakly bound and formed through vibrations in the atomic lattice.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 7 Nov. 2025
  • His team first showed in 2016 that soft materials could guide the formation of superconductors.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In the ‘70s, scientists observed that magnetic flux around a tiny doughnut of a superconductor behaved this way.
    — Sumeet Kulkarni, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2022
  • The new room temperature superconductor only works at a pressure equivalent to about three-quarters of that at the center of Earth.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
  • In order to understand even a tiny fleck of a superconductor, theorists would need to grasp the behavior of electron swarms numbering in the trillions.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Trapped between two opposing forces, the magnet levitates above the superconductor.
    — Lila Levinson, Dallas News, 10 July 2023
  • Most superconductors have to be chilled to ultracold temperatures, which limits their practical use.
    — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 26 July 2023
  • Fulfilling a decades-old quest, this week researchers report creating the first superconductor that does not have to be cooled for its electrical resistance to vanish.
    — Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Familiar metals like tin and mercury become superconductors only when chilled to within a few degrees of absolute zero.
    — Quanta Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Keeping materials that cold requires complex and costly cooling systems, which limits where the superconductors can be used.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 5 Apr. 2026
  • As a result, this material should be accessible to a lot more labs than could work on hydrogen-rich superconductors previously.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2023

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