Posted: 6/10/2019
In the past several days, I have come across two media news articles claiming new and promising results regarding high temperature superconductors.
The first one and hard to believe one is from India. Researchers claim they found a room temperature superconductor ( see S1, S2). The respective arXiv research paper is apparently undergoing several revisions (see S1). The authors of the research paper do not quite seem to claim achieving superconductivity, but ”Vanishingly Small Electrical Resistance at Ambient Temperature”.
The second one is about a research team that claims it achieved superconductivity at -23 degrees Celsius, which, if confirmed, is a major milestone (see S3, S4, S5).
Very exciting times! If superconductivity can finally be realized at normal temperatures and normal pressure, then this will have huge positive implications!
Sources (S):
- Coexistence of Diamagnetism and Vanishingly Small Electrical Resistance at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures (originally published 7/23/18, last update on 5/28/19)
- Supraleitung schon bei Gefrierschrank-Temperaturen (published 6/9/19)
- Ein Sprung zur Supraleitung bei Raumtemperatur (published 5/23/19; original press release of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry)
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