Superconductors

How Demon Particle could shed new light on understanding of superconductors

These materials are known as superconductors. The world record for running an uninterrupted zero-energy current through a superconductor is over 28 years

Researchers unveil 'demon particle' that can lead to making superconductors

70 yrs after it was first predicted, scientists discover the elusive particle which can form at any temperature as it has no mass

TMS Ep493: India Inc's recovery, biosimilar regulations, superconductor etc

Is India Inc's recovery too lopsided? Should India relax biosimilar product regulations? Will prices of oil and precious metals sustain their strength? What is a room-temp superconductor? Answers here

What are room-temperature superconductors and what's the LK-99 controversy?

The claims made by South Korean researchers about LK-99, a lead-based compound, led to unprecedented excitement among experts in the field and also triggered scepticism in the scientific community

Researchers created practicable superconducting material in lab: Study

Researchers have created a superconducting material at both a temperature and pressure low enough for practical applications. In a paper in the journal Nature, the researchers from University of Rochester, US, describe a nitrogen-doped lutetium hydride (NDLH) that exhibits superconductivity at 69 degrees Fahrenheit, or 20.6 degrees Celsius, and 10 kilobars, or 145,000 pounds per square inch, or psi, of pressure. Although 145,000 psi might still seem extraordinarily high - pressure at sea level is about 15 psi, or 1 bar - strain engineering techniques routinely used in chip manufacturing, for example, incorporate materials held together by internal chemical pressures that are even higher, the study said. "With this material, the dawn of ambient superconductivity and applied technologies has arrived," according to a team led by Ranga Dias, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering and of physics. Scientists have been pursuing this breakthrough in condensed matter physics for m

Did IISc team just make the 'greatest Indian discovery after Raman effect'?

The authors made the extraordinary claim that they had discovered superconducting behaviour at room temperature and pressure in a nanostructured composite material of silver and gold