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A room-temperature superconductor is a hypothetical material capable of displaying superconductivity at temperatures above 0 °C (273 K; 32 °F), which are commonly encountered in everyday settings.
Sep 29, 2023 · A team of 11 scientists reported in March in the journal Nature that they had discovered a room-temperature superconductor. Eight of those scientists have now asked Nature to retract their paper.
Mar 8, 2023 · New Room-Temperature Superconductor Offers Tantalizing Possibilities. The breakthrough could one day transform technologies that use electric energy, but it comes from a team facing doubts...
Aug 7, 2023 · The first superconductor was discovered in 1911 after the Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes noticed that a supercooled mercury wire (its temperature lowered to roughly minus 452 F (minus...
Oct 14, 2020 · Room-temperature superconductors—materials that conduct electricity with zero resistance without needing special cooling—are the sort of technological miracle that would upend daily life....
Oct 14, 2020 · The first superconductors observed by scientists lost their electrical resistance only at ultracold temperatures, a few degrees above absolute zero, or minus 459.67 degrees, the lowest...
Sep 1, 2023 · To keep protons moving in a 27-kilometre circle, the LHC generates strong magnetic fields with superconducting coils kept at a temperature of just 1.9 kelvin (–271.25 ºC). Doing so requires a...
Oct 14, 2020 · Even the most sophisticated ones — copper oxide-based ceramic materials — work only below 133 kelvin (−140 °C). Superconductors that work at room temperature could have a big technological...
Jul 28, 2023 · Room-temperature superconductors could be transformative for science. Science Photo Library/Alamy. It has been over a hundred years since researchers discovered that some materials can...
Jul 22, 2023 · For the first time in the world, we succeeded in synthesizing the room-temperature superconductor ( Tc ≥ 400 K, 127 ∘ C) working at ambient pressure with a modified lead-apatite (LK-99) structure.
