Getting much closer to room temperature superconductivity
Fewer power plants, less greenhouse gases and lower costs: enormous amounts of electricity could be saved with superconductivity at room temperatures
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Fewer power plants, less greenhouse gases and lower costs: enormous amounts of electricity could be saved with superconductivity at room temperatures
Scientists are pursuing materials that can conduct electricity with perfect efficiency under ambient conditions. In this episode, the physicist Siddharth Shanker Saxena tells co-host Janna Levin about what makes this hunt so difficult and consequential.
A materials scientist unravels the hype around research on high-temperature superconductor research like LK-99
The record for the highest-temperature superconductor may be toast.
The search for room-temperature superconductors has suffered scandalous setbacks, but physicists are optimistic about the field’s future