With copper-free brake standards taking effect, suppliers are reengineering friction materials, and fleets are weighing what the change means for air disc brake performance on the road.

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 ...

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"This is the first time since the Nobel-winning discovery that a copper-free high-temperature superconducting oxide has been found to function under ambient pressure," emphasised Prof Ariando.