Download or read book Magnesium Diborid written by David J. Fisher and published by Trans Tech Publications Ltd. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This substance is very much a material for the new millennium, since its new manifestation as a high-temperature superconductor can be dated precisely from the seminal 2001 Nature paper (1st March, p63), Superconductivity at 39K in Magnesium Diboride, by J.Nagamatsu, N.Nakagawa, T.Muranaka, Y.Zenitani and J.Akimitsu of the Physics Department of Aoyama-Gakuin University, Tokyo. Until then, it had been seen and used only as a rather nondescript ceramic/abrasive.