For decades, copper has quietly done some of the hardest work in heavy-duty truck braking systems. It stabilized friction. It pulled heat out of the pad. It reinforced the friction matrix. It helped ...

Prof Ariando (middle) with Dr Stephen Lin Er Chow (extreme right) and Zhaoyang Luo (extreme left) were part of the research team that designed the new copper-free superconducting material. Credit: NUS ...