US 2017/0279028 A1Published application

Purposing and repurposing a group of compounds that can be used as high temperature superconductors

AssigneeEastern Plus, LLC

InventorsDong Zhao, George Jin Zhao

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Abstract

This disclosure will describe a novel finding and make the claim for the first time on a group of old compounds and formulated new compounds. These compounds have superconducting property at high temperatures, i.e., 151K or higher. Several compounds were prepared, though not well-purified, at around middle of 1900s. Their chemical, structural, electric and magnetic properties were studied and reported but their superconducting property has not been known and has never been exploited because the idea of type-II superconductivity was not proposed at that time. Consequently, we claim this finding as an invention even though our invention is based on the studies of the compounds' electric and magnetic properties along with their crystallographic features from the previous publications. The experiments to further verify their high temperature superconductivity require the utilization of sophisticated facilities on synthesizing highly pure compounds and the deregulation from government security authorities on purchasing the starting materials.

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Dependent claims

A group of electrical superconducting materials or compounds with their chemical formulae or compositions written as (M)(X)n, where the M is at least one from the actinide, lanthanide and early transition elements, i.e., actinium (Ac), thorium (Th), protactinium (Pa), uranium (U), Neptunium (Np), plutonium (Pu), americium (Am), curium (Cm), berkelium (Bk), californium (Cf), einsteinium (Es), fermium (Fm), mendelevium (Md), nobelium (No), lawrencium (Lr), lanthanum (La), cerium (Ce), praseodymium (Pr), neodymium (Nd), promethium (Pm), samarium (Sm), europium (Eu), gadolinium (Gd), terbium (Tb), dysprosium (Dy), holmium (Ho), erbium (Er), thulium (Tm), ytterbium (Yb), lutetium (Lu), scandium (Sc), titanium (Ti), vanadium (V), chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), yttrium (Y), zirconium (Zr), niobium (Nb), molybdenum (Mo), technetium (Tc), hafnium (Hf), tantalum (Ta) tungsten (W), rhenium (Re) and their isotopes;

the X represents at least one element from fluorine (F), chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), iodine (I), astatine (At), oxygen (0), sulfur (S), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te), nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), arsenic (As), antimony (Sb), carbon (C), silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), boron (B) and their isotopes;
and the n is a value ranging from 0.05 to 20;

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.