The application belongs to the technical field of superconducting materials, and discloses a high-performance MgB2
superconducting wire and a preparation method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: firstly, uniformly mixing nano-Mg
alloy powder and B
powder in an
inert gas
atmosphere according to an
atomic number ratio of Mg:B=1:2; secondly, compounding a high-purity Nb rod, a CuNi
alloy tube and an
oxygen-free Cu tube into an Nb / CuNi / Cu
alloy rod,
processing deep holes, and then making a single-core wire by loading the mixed
powder; thirdly, assembling the single-core wire into a
Monel alloy tube,
processing into a multi-core composite wire, and obtaining the high-performance MgB2
superconducting wire through high-temperature
phase formation heat treatment. The
metal elements in the nano-Mg alloy powder can generate
metal borides, and the CuNi alloy has both constraint and barrier effects, so that the MgB2 grains of the wire are refined, the
connectivity between the grains is improved, and the current-carrying performance is improved.