Preparing Superconducting YBCO Colloids via a Top-Down Processing Route for Applications in Soft Composites.

ABSTRACT: High-temperature superconductors (HTSCs) are critical materials for magnetic, power, and energy storage applications. The cuprate-based HTSCs, such as yttrium barium copper oxide, YBa₂Cu₃O_7-δ (YBCO), allow for superconducting devices at a critical temperature (T _c) above 90 K, which is easily accomplished via cryogenic liquid nitrogen. One challenge of HTSCs is the need for high crystallinity of an oxygen-deficient perovskite solid, which can only be achieved via high-temperature solid-state synthesis and subsequent annealing. HTSCs have ceramic-like physical properties and are not easily processed or chemically synthesized to colloidal sizes at scale. Herein, we developed a multistep top-down processing method to break YBCO into fi

SUBMITTER: Reinheimer H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12658815 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature