{"id":107978,"date":"2020-05-31T22:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/room-temperature-superconductor-breakthrough-at-oak-ridge-national-laboratory"},"modified":"2020-05-31T22:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:23:38","slug":"room-temperature-superconductor-breakthrough-at-oak-ridge-national-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/room-temperature-superconductor-breakthrough-at-oak-ridge-national-laboratory","title":{"rendered":"Room Temperature Superconductor Breakthrough at Oak Ridge National Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/room-temperature-superconductor-breakthrough-at-oak-ridge-national-laboratory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades \u2014 a feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Such a superconducting material, carrying electricity without any energy loss due to resistance, would revolutionize energy efficiency in a broad range of consumer and industrial applications.<\/p>\n<p>The scientists conducted neutron scattering experiments at the Department of Energy\u2019s Oak Ridge National Laboratory on samples of zirconium vanadium hydride at atmospheric pressure and at temperatures from &minus;450 degrees Fahrenheit (5 K) to as high as &minus;10 degrees Fahrenheit (250 K) \u2014 much higher than the temperatures where superconductivity is expected to occur in these conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has discovered the hydrogen atoms in a metal hydride material are much more tightly spaced than had been predicted for decades \u2014 a feature that could possibly facilitate superconductivity at or near room temperature and pressure. Such a superconducting material, carrying electricity without any energy loss due to resistance, would [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}