摘要 |
A ductile superconductive material and method for manufacturing same, which basically may utilize any porous metal or its hydride with a melting point substantially higher than that of the infiltrating metal that will form a superconductive compound when reacted with the infiltrating metal. The superconductive material is made from a porous strip or tape of niobium or vanadium for example, infiltrated with tin, aluminum, antimony, antiomony, or gallium, for example, and treated in a manner so as to contain interconnecting filaments of the superconducting phase Nb3Sn, Nb3A1, Nb3(A1,Ge), Nb3Sb, or V3Ga, for example. The novel manufacturing process, which is relatively simple and inexpensive provides a method of producing a new and useful end product capable of a broad superconductive range due to the amount of reaction of the infiltrated material with the porous material. The novel process may be utilized in either batch or continuous operational applications.
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