{"id":3923795,"date":"2026-02-03T08:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/niobiums-superconducting-switch-cuts-near-field-radiative-heat-transfer-20-fold\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T08:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T13:03:06","slug":"niobiums-superconducting-switch-cuts-near-field-radiative-heat-transfer-20-fold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/niobiums-superconducting-switch-cuts-near-field-radiative-heat-transfer-20-fold\/","title":{"rendered":"Niobium&#8217;s superconducting switch cuts near-field radiative heat transfer 20-fold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>When cooled to its superconducting state, niobium blocks the radiative flow of heat 20 times better than when in its metallic state, according to a study led by a University of Michigan Engineering team. The experiment marks the first use of superconductivity\u2014a quantum property characterized by zero electrical resistance\u2014to control thermal radiation at the nanoscale.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-02-niobium-superconducting-field.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When cooled to its superconducting state, niobium blocks the radiative flow of heat 20 times better than when in its metallic state, according to a study led by a University of Michigan Engineering team. The experiment marks the first use of superconductivity\u2014a quantum property characterized by zero electrical resistance\u2014to control thermal radiation at the nanoscale. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}