May 20, 2021 An interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has taken its breakthrough discovery – which melded the ability of soft organic materials to spontaneously self-organize with quantum materials to create superconductors with novel porous architectures – and upped the ante by designing a new cohort of these “quantum metamaterials” that can achieve superconductivity at temperatures competitive with state-of-the-art solid-state materials synthesis. In the process, they’ve demonstrated the intrinsic superconducting properties are a function of the architecture itself. Provided These scanning electron microscopy images show the four different superconductor quantum material structures that were directed by the spontaneous self-organization of soft organic block copolymers, along with color schematics of the four structures.