High-Temperature Superconducting Materials: Preparations, Properties, and Processing [Hardcover]

This book is a collection of proceedings of a symposium organized by the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society on the preparations, properties, and processing of high-temperature superconducting materials. The proceedings include papers of new results presented at the symposium.1. Oxide Superconductors: Structure-Property Relationships and Mechanism for High Tc 2. The Advent of High-Temperature Superconducting Materials: Chronology of Events and Hallmark Developments 3. High-Temperature Superconduction: An Overview 4. The Physics of High-Temperature Superconductivity 5. Density Functional Theory for Hidden High-Tc Superconductivity 6. Where can New Classes of High-Tc Superconducting Materials be Found? 7. Precipitation of Superconductor Precursor Powders 8. Synthesis and Characterization of High-Tc Superconductors in the YBa2(Cu1-xNix)3O7-? System 9. Preparation and Physical Properties of Oxyfluorides in the Ln-Ba-Cu System (Ln = Y, La) 10. Oxalate Precipitation Methods for Preparing the Yttrium-Barium-Copper Superconducting Compound 11. High-Temperature Oxide Superconductor Thick Films 12. Iodometric Titrations and Xanes: Two Perspectives of the Copper Valence in High-Tc Superconducting Oxides 13. Importance of the Interactions Between the Copper Atoms of the CuO2 Layers Occurring via the Oxygen-Copper-Oxygen Atom Bridges of the CuO3 Chains for the High-Temperature (Tc > 90 K) Superconductivity of YBa2Cu3O7-y 14. Crystal Structure and Lattice Vibrations of the Ceramic Superconductor La1.85Sr0.15CuO4: Neutron Scattering Studies 15. Observation of the AC Josephson Effect Inside Copper Oxide-Based Superconductors 16. Temperature-Dependent Conductivity of Oxygen-Depleted YBCO Ceramics 17. Effect of Surface Properties on Metal-Oxide Superconductor Contact Resistance 18. Observations of the Deterioration of YBa2Cu3O7 Using a New Superconductor Characterization Cryostat 19. Superconductivity, Thermogravimetry, EPR, Electron Microscopy, and X-Ray DiffrlCÀ