A hydrogen-rich material becomes superconductive under high pressure and at minus 23 degrees Celsius Fewer power plants, less greenhouse gases and lower costs: enormous amounts of electricit... Read more
New findings are changing the way we think about superconductivity. Experiments at TU Wien (Vienna) underline the special role of immobile charge carriers, acting as a “glue”, which makes su... Read more
Energy storage device could deliver more power than current versions of this technology. Energy storage devices called supercapacitors have become a hot area of research, in part because the... Read more
Russian scientists develop a control system for rapid superconducting memory cells A group of scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and from the Moscow State University... Read more
Superconductivity could have implications for creating technologies like ultra-efficient power grids and magnetically levitating vehicles Physicists at the University of Waterloo have led an... Read more
Building on nearly two decades’ worth of research, a multidisciplinary team at Cornell has blazed a new trail by creating a self-assembled, three-dimensional gyroidal superconductor. U... Read more
Results are first to suggest how to engineer even warmer superconductors with atom-by-atom control A study at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory suggests f... Read more
New circuit design could unlock the power of experimental superconducting computer chips. Computer chips with superconducting circuits — circuits with zero electrical resistance — would be 5... Read more
The research demonstrates the potential of high-temperature superconductors for applications in a range of fields, including flywheels for energy storage, ‘magnetic separators’, which can be... Read more
This illuminates an amazing future for quick start-up of electric vehicles and launching of aircrafts. Graphene sheets are immensely strong, lightweight and excellent at conducting electrici... Read more
The holy grail is to design a material where the pairs are bound together so strongly that superconductivity can happen even up to room temperature High-temperature superconductors exhibit a... Read more