DTI TO FUND RESEARCH INTO HIGH TEMEPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY

But the UK Department of Trade & Industry has set aside ?16m to help fund collaboartive research by companies into high temperature superconductivity: where proposals are accepted, the Department will match corporate investment pound for pound and GEC Plc research director Cyril Hilsum will do the choosing; the Atomic Energy Authority’s Harwell laboratory has already put up a ?2.16m three year proposal for the development and application of superconducting ceramics, in which its partners would be Air Products Plc, BICC Plc, Dowty Group Plc, Ford of Britain Ltd, Johnson Matthey Ltd and Oxford Instruments Plc.