FLEET’s superconducting Mobius strip makes its first appearance
23 May 2024
|By David Haworth
A super-cooled, superconducting Mobius-track impresses the crowds, helps embed FLEET science
As a cool science demo, FLEET’s superconductor Mobius track ticks all the boxes: liquid nitrogen – tick. Superconductor – tick. Cool shape – tick. Relevance to the science – tick tick tick.
The track features 1500 neodymium magnets, fixed into the shape of a Mobius strip, so that a small superconducting ‘puck’, when cooled in liquid nitrogen, will whizz around the track, spending half of each orbit hanging suspended by its ‘pinned’ internal magnetic fields.