Latest! Zhu Jiamin, president of Shanghai Superconductor, was selected as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 China.

2023-03-30

On March 30, Zhu Jiamin, president of Shanghai Superconductor Technology Co., Ltd., was successfully selected as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 China. He was also awarded the “Entrepreneurs” medal in recognition of his development of high-temperature superconductor tape, the founding of Shanghai Superconductor Company, and the promotion of the “disruptive” high-temperature superconductivity technology in the fields of compact nuclear fusion, superconducting power, high field magnets and other innovative applications.

Among the “35 Innovators Under 35” (TR35) China, 33 are from renowned universities and 2 are from high-tech companies, all of whom are innovators under 35 in fields such as computing, biology and life sciences, chemistry, physics, materials science, semiconductors and quantum computing. Zhu Jiamin is the only one from a local private enterprise among the selected innovators, which will bring wider attention to the development and commercialization of the superconductor industry.
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Reasons for selection: He led his team to develop HTS tapes with high-engineering critical current density and achieved mass preparation, providing key raw materials for the development of controlled nuclear fusion engineering towards compactness.

Zhu Jiamin is one of the founders of Shanghai Superconductor Technology Co., Ltd. After more than ten years of efforts, he led the team to strive on the core equipment localization, product process quality improvement and practical technology research and then achieved the mass production of this kind of high-performance superconducting tapes.

He developed a complete domestic production line for the second-generation HTS tape. He proposed the asymmetric auxiliary heating technology for pulsed laser deposition equipment for the first time and invented non-contact forced instantaneous cooling technology in tape packaging. These technological breakthroughs solved the problem of HTS tape mass production.

Zhu Jiamin has also developed testing platforms and methods for key performance indicators of superconductor tapes and built a comprehensive process quality system. He invented an industrial joint for second-generation HTS tapes with the lowest resistance in the world and realized industrial production, solving the problem of limited tape length. He also overcame the long-term problems of the industry such as tape overcurrent burning, impregnation performance degradation, stainless steel packaging problems.

Additionally, he also developed low-cost tape structure for power applications and high-engineering critical current density tape structure for compact fusion magnets, solving the practical problems of HTS tapes and promoted the development of superconductor on heavy current applications.

At present, Shanghai Superconductor led by Zhu Jiamin has provided raw materials for many significant projects, including the world's three highest voltage-rated superconducting fault current limiters, the first megawatt-level induction heating device,  the highest magnetic field all superconducting steady-state strong magnet, and the first 35kV km-level high-temperature superconducting cable.

Of particular concern is that the high-engineering critical current density REBCO high-temperature superconducting tapes developed by Zhu Jiamin have become key raw material for the compact fusion 20T magnet developed by MIT-CFS. At the same time, this compact fusion technology is also one of the "Top 10 global breakthrough Technologies" by MIT Technology Review in 2021.

Among the 16 international enterprises, Shanghai Superconductor is one of the only two companies currently capable of producing high Je tape on 30μm thin substrate and the only one that has developed mass-produced superconducting tapes based on 25μm thin substrate, making  another step forward in the ultimate dream of human energy.


Reasons for selection: He led his team to develop HTS tapes with high-engineering critical current density and achieved mass preparation, providing key raw materials for the development of controlled nuclear fusion engineering towards compactness.