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Reports the launching of Supertron Technologies in Newark, New Jersey. Business partnership between Jon Devries and Q.Y. Ma; Details on the patenting of the a superconductor technology called supertron; Government grant used in the development of supertron technology.

Reports that scientists have found that by adding rubidium and thallium to a film of buckyballs they can make a superconductor that works up to at least 42 kelvins. Research at Allied-Signal, Inc. in New Jersey into the soccerball-shaped molecules that can conduct electricity without resistance; The status of 60-carbon buckyball or C60 in the fullerene family; Superconductivity research at NEC Corp.'s Fundamental Research Laboratories in Japan; Chemists working on buckyball films; Effort of Paul W.C. Chu to develop a crystal of the carbon spheres.

Reports that scientists from Bell Laboratories Inc. in New Jersey have created the first plastic material in which resistance to the flow of electricity vanishes below a certain temperature, making it a superconductor. Strategy used by scientists to overcome the challenge in creating a plastic superconductor; Plan to study interrelationships between semiconducting, superconducting and molecular electronics.