IC-2 - 10th International Conference
Science and Engineering of Novel Superconductors

Superconductivity is a fascinating macroscopic quantum phenomenon with numerous useful applications, and it is of major interest both for fundamental and technological reasons. The discovery of high-temperature superconductivity in cuprates generated an outburst of research activity that led to unprecedented advances in materials development, experimental techniques and theoretical models. Many new superconductors and several new classes of superconductors have since been discovered, including iron-based pnictides and chalcogenides, ruthenates, bismuthates, cobaltates, borides, borocarbides, carbon-based materials such as fullerenes and nanotubes, organic compounds, heavy-fermion intermetallics, hydrides, graphene bilayers, nickelates and so on.      
The discoveries of new materials have been followed by in-depth characterization of their physical properties by means of a variety of experimental approaches and, often, by successful applications in wires, tapes, power cables, fault current limiters, processing in electronics and in novel nano-structured technological devices. Nonetheless, the mechanisms of (un)conventional superconductivity at play in many materials of interest for industry are still under debate and a comprehensive understanding is far from being achieved. 
This Conference follows those on the analogous topics in 1990, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022, organized in the frame of CIMTEC. On one side it will highlight the progress achieved along the last years in the various issues of fundamental and technological character of the already known superconducting materials. On another side, the Conference will be focused on the recently discovered materials, their characterization, synthesis and processing and the prospective applications. Following the mission of the previous conferences of this type, the focus will be on novel aspects, issues and systems, but attention will be paid as well to all superconducting-related topics, including fundamental aspects of theory, advances in synthesis, functionalization and processing and the latest progress in the areas of small-scale and large-scale devices.