The Advanced Supercon business unit of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR) announced today that it has signed a formal cooperation agreement with the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany (IFW Dresden) to jointly further develop Magnesium Diboride (MgB2) superconducting wire.
HANAU, Germany (Business Wire EON) April 2, 2008 --
The Advanced Supercon business unit of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR)
announced today that it has signed a formal cooperation agreement with
the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden,
Germany (IFW Dresden) to jointly further develop Magnesium Diboride (MgB2)
superconducting wire.
In the framework of this cooperation agreement, IFW Dresden will
contribute existing know-how and future R&D results in MgB2
powder and conductor materials. Bruker’s
Advanced Supercon business will contribute its broad experience and
large-scale manufacturing capacity for all types of technical
superconductors, including industrial scale-up, production, quality
assurance and commercialization, particularly for MRI and energy
research magnet applications.
The expanded collaboration between the Advanced Supercon business and
IFW Dresden has the dual goals to further increase MgB2
wire critical currents and to produce a first 1 kilometer long
wire segment within a year. Future collaboration plans include large
scale MgB2 wire production and collaboration
with magnet manufacturers for next-generation MRI magnets, as well as
for high-energy physics and fusion research magnets.
“IFW Dresden is a performance leader in the
development of MgB2 wire, and we have been
collaborating with IFW Dresden for several years already,”
commented Dr. Burkhard Prause, Managing Director of the Advanced
Supercon business. “Our development results
have reached the point where we decided to strengthen and expand our
ongoing joint efforts to further develop MgB2
wire towards higher performance specifications and towards scaled-up
industrial production. We believe that in the future there could be a
large potential market for MgB2 wire in ‘dry’
MRI and energy research magnets operating without liquid helium at
temperatures greater than 10 degrees Kelvin.”
"Since the discovery of superconductivity in MgB2
in 2001 the IFW Dresden has developed new materials preparation
routes based on mechanical alloying, which enable the synthesis of
highly reactive MgB2 nanopowders with strongly
improved superconducting properties," added Professor Ludwig Schultz,
the Scientific Director of the IFW Dresden. "These powders proved to be
excellent precursors for MgB2 powder-in-tube
wires and last year we were able to set new records in their high
magnetic field current capability. We are very pleased that in
cooperation with Bruker‘s Advanced Supercon
Business our successful research results will now be transferred towards
industrial MgB2 wire production and we are
convinced that the superconducting properties of MgB2
can still be significantly improved towards a new technical
Medium-Temperature Superconductor (MTS) with wide industrial
applicability."
ABOUT THE BRUKER ADVANCED SUPERCON BUSINESS
Bruker Corporation has recently become the parent company of the entire
Bruker group of companies. Bruker Corporation now operates in two
business segments, the Life Science and Analytical systems segment, and
the Advanced Supercon segment. The Advanced Supercon business is a
global leader in the development and industrial production of
low-temperature superconducting (LTS) wires used primarily in Magnetic
Resonance Imaging (MRI), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR), Fourier
Transform Mass Spectrometry (FTMS), High-Energy Physics (HEP) and
nuclear fusion research magnet applications. This business also develops
and manufactures high-temperature superconductors (HTS) and HTS devices,
based on its two complementary, advanced HTS technology platforms for
BSSCO and YBCO conductors. HTS conductors and components made by the
Advanced Supercon business are used in a wide range of HTS devices such
as motors, generators, cables, fault current limiters, current leads,
and transformers. For more information on the business, please visit www.advancedsupercon.com
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