Niobium in the superconducting materials industry

Certain compounds and alloys of niobium have high superconducting transition temperatures and are therefore widely used in the manufacture of a variety of industrial superconductors, such as superconducting generators, high-power magnets for gas pedals, superconducting magnetic energy storage devices, and magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Currently, the most important superconductor materials are niobium-titanium and niobium-tin, which are widely used in magnetic resonance imagers for medical diagnosis and nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) machines for spectral line (analysis).