Prikhna Tetiana, Sokolovsky Vladimir, Moshchil Viktor
V. Bakul Institute for Superhard Materials, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2, Avtozavodska Str., 07074 Kyiv, Ukraine.
Institut de Ciencia de Materials de Barcelona, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Materials (Basel). 2024 Jun 6;17(11):2787. doi: 10.3390/ma17112787.
The intensive development of hydrogen technologies has made very promising applications of one of the cheapest and easily produced bulk MgB-based superconductors. These materials are capable of operating effectively at liquid hydrogen temperatures (around 20 K) and are used as elements in various devices, such as magnets, magnetic bearings, fault current limiters, electrical motors, and generators. These applications require mechanically and chemically stable materials with high superconducting characteristics. This review considers the results of superconducting and structural property studies of MgB-based bulk materials prepared under different pressure-temperature conditions using different promising methods: hot pressing (30 MPa), spark plasma sintering (16-96 MPa), and high quasi-hydrostatic pressures (2 GPa). Much attention has been paid to the study of the correlation between the manufacturing pressure-temperature conditions and superconducting characteristics. The influence of the amount and distribution of oxygen impurity and an excess of boron on superconducting characteristics is analyzed. The dependence of superconducting characteristics on the various additions and changes in material structure caused by these additions are discussed. It is shown that different production conditions and additions improve the superconducting MgB bulk properties for various ranges of temperature and magnetic fields, and the optimal technology may be selected according to the application requirements. We briefly discuss the possible applications of MgB superconductors in devices, such as fault current limiters and electric machines.
氢技术的密集发展使得最便宜且易于生产的块状MgB基超导体之一有了非常有前景的应用。这些材料能够在液氢温度(约20K)下有效运行,并被用作各种设备中的元件,如磁体、磁轴承、故障电流限制器、电动机和发电机。这些应用需要具有高超导特性且机械和化学稳定的材料。本综述考虑了使用不同的有前景的方法在不同压力-温度条件下制备的MgB基块状材料的超导和结构性能研究结果:热压(30MPa)、放电等离子烧结(16 - 96MPa)和高准静水压(2GPa)。对制造压力-温度条件与超导特性之间的相关性研究给予了大量关注。分析了氧杂质含量和分布以及硼过量对超导特性的影响。讨论了超导特性对各种添加剂以及这些添加剂引起的材料结构变化的依赖性。结果表明,不同的生产条件和添加剂可在不同温度和磁场范围内改善MgB块状超导体的性能,并且可以根据应用要求选择最佳技术。我们简要讨论了MgB超导体在故障电流限制器和电机等设备中的可能应用。