There are many criteria by which superconductors are classified. The most common are:
Response to a magnetic field
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Superconductivity was discovered on April 8, 1911, by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, who was studying the resistance of solid mercury at See more

Superconductors are promising candidate materials for devising fundamental circuit elements of electronic, spintronic, and quantum … See more

• Hydrogen cryomagnetics
• MXenes
• Graphene-clad wire
• Superconducting magnetic energy storage See more

Several physical properties of superconductors vary from material to material, such as the critical temperature, the value of the superconducting gap, the critical magnetic field, and the critical current density at which superconductivity is destroyed. On … See more

Until 1986, physicists had believed that BCS theory forbade superconductivity at temperatures above about 30 K. In that year, Bednorz and Müller discovered superconductivity in See more

As of 2022, there have been five Nobel Prizes in Physics for superconductivity related subjects:
• Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1913), "for his investigations on … See more