Researchers at the DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States have found that a coating of magnesium enhances the characteristics of tantalum, a superconducting material with a lot of ...

Chenyu Zhou, a research associate in the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) at Brookhaven National Laboratory and first author on the study, with Mingzhao Liu (CFN), Yimei Zhu (CMPMS), and ...

Magnesium, a light and reactive chemical element, may hold a major surprise. Researchers are considering giving it a novel role in the field of superconductors. This alkaline earth metal, abundant in ...

A study, conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and published in npj Computational Materials, reveals a mineral defect that might be valuable for quantum ...

These molecular diagrams compare the oxidation of native tantalum (Ta), left, in which the oxide penetrates the Ta lattice, with that of tantalum coated with an ultrathin layer of magnesium (Mg), ...