The market for superconductors: still dominated by MRI
Superconductivity was discovered quite a while ago. And interest in "high temperature superconductors" has come and gone several times over the last thirty years or so. I remember when I was in high-school, high-Tc superconductors were one of the more common topics for science fairs throughout the country! As the attached article reminds us, we really haven't found a market for much other than the "traditional" superconducting material: Niobium-Titanium (in copper matrix) - fully 99% (probably more) of the real superconducting wire in the world is made from this material, and MRI remains by far the dominant driver in this market. But, one needs to be aware of the emerging possibilities - who knows, perhaps in two decades we'll be talking about some of the applications mentioned!
Resistance is futile
Superconductors: A century after their discovery, superconductors are finally moving beyond scientific and medical uses and into power grids
