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About the Site

For those that aren't aware, this site was produced for a second year undergraduate degree project - the aim being to present a vaguely chemistry-related mini-project in web form, suitable for sixth form/first year undergraduate consumption (which I hope it is) - in under two weeks I should also add.

If you have any problems/comments/queries about the site, I'd greatly appreciate them - you can e-mail me at ig8572@bristol.ac.uk.

Bibliography

Texts used:

• Superconductivity, C. P. Poole, H. A. Farach, R. J. Creswick, Academic Press, 1995.

• Physical Chemistry, P. W. Atkins, 6th Ed., Oxford University Press, 1998.

Online sources:

• Video clip of the Meissner effect obtained without permission from Quantum Cavorite: Gravity Shielding and Superconductors at http://www.inetarena.com/~noetic/pls/Gallery/video.html
  Copyright 1998 Echtzeit Fernsehproduktion and Klaus Simmering, All Rights Reserved
  (Sorry about the text across the video, but it was the only program I had to convert the video to a QuickTime clip)

• VRML world of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ obtained from the ILL Diffraction Group (France) using their 'xtal-3D' superconductor database available online at http://barns.ill.fr/dif/xtal-3d.super.html.

• Crystal structure picture of YBa₂Cu₃O₇ obtained from the University of Texas, on their superconductor catalogue page at http://sam.cm.utexas.edu/supercatalog.html.

• Pictures of MagLev train and MRI scan taken from Superconductors.org without permission.

• Instructions for making high Tc superconductors obtained from Colorado Futurescience's web site at http://www.webcom.com/cfsc/scpart1.html.

Superconductor Resources on the Web

There are many academic resources on the Internet (nearly every university has a research department), but aside from links referred to elsewhere in the site, the following two general sites are particularly useful:

• Superconductors.org - This site serves as an introduction to superconduction for the beginner or non-technical viewer, and comes highly recommended. It has an excellent links section (http://superconductor.org/Links.htm), and a smart design too.

• Superconductors: A Guide To Resources on the Web - This is a web page with a comprehensive set of links.

These two sites have links to many research departments and other sites more useful to the general public, which should keep you going if you want to know more.

A few other sites of interest might be:

• Oxford Instruments - The largest manufacturer of superconductors in the world, apparently.

• Superconductor Reference Books for Beginners - At the University of Rome

• CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC)