{"id":110606,"date":"2020-07-29T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/steps-toward-room-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2020-07-29T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T19:10:54","slug":"steps-toward-room-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/steps-toward-room-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"Steps toward room-temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/steps-toward-room-temperature-superconductivity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists.<\/p>\n<p>The surprising discovery involved layering a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/two-dimensional+material\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">two-dimensional material<\/a> called molybdenum sulfide with another material called molybdenum carbide. Molybdenum carbide is a known superconductor\u2014electrons can flow through the material without any resistance. Even the best of metals, such as silver or copper, lose energy through heat. This loss makes long-distance transmission of electricity more costly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuperconductivity occurs at very <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/low+temperatures\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low temperatures<\/a>, close to absolute zero or 0 Kelvin,\u201d said Mauricio Terrones, corresponding author on a paper in <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> published this week. \u201cThe alpha phase of Moly carbide is superconducting at 4 Kelvin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. The surprising discovery involved layering a two-dimensional material called molybdenum sulfide with another material called molybdenum carbide. Molybdenum carbide is a known superconductor\u2014electrons can flow through the material without [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110606","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=110606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}