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The hunt for a superconductive material at room temperature remains alluring and has given rise to many claims which have, however, been subsequently disproved
MIT physicists coaxed superconductivity and more from quasicrystals. The work introduces a flexible platform for making the enigmatic materials that could jump-start interest in the field and allow new studies of exotic phenomena.
Photograph of the first Solvay Conference in 1911 at the Hotel Metropole. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes is standing third from the right. Benjamin Couprie/Wikimedia CommonsOn April 8, 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes scribbled in pencil an almost unintelligible note into a kitchen notebook: “near enough null.” The note referred to the electrical resistance he’d measured during a landmark experiment that would later be credited as the discovery of superconductivity. But first, he and his tea
Will a possible breakthrough for room-temperature superconducting materials hold up to scrutiny?
Eight of the 11 authors are asking to retract a paper on a room-temperature superconductor, but Ranga Dias, the physicist who led the research, continued to defend the findings.