Maybe, but last I looked, such materials were very expensive and not in common use in the electric power industry.
"The building materials were very bad quality -- people had only been living in there for a month and it was built in 2002".
Though the materials were very poor conductors at room temperature, Dr. Bednorz and Dr. Muller discovered they were superconducting at temperatures up to 63 degrees above absolute zero.
In addition, the modified carbon steel materials were very stable and long-acting, which can remain superhydrophobic behavior in air without an obvious decay of water contact angle after 90 days.
However, in vitro degradation studies during 182 days demonstrated that, despite their increased amorphous character, these materials were very resistant to hydrolysis due to the steric effect of the ε-DL units, and can virtually be considered as non-biodegradable polymers.
The gradient materials were very advantageous for EMI shielding since the foamed structure at the surface had low dielectric constant and limited the reflection of the EM signal while the presence of highly conductive solid in the middle ensured a high absorption of the electromagnetic radiation.
