{"id":132339,"date":"2021-12-13T14:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-crystal-structure-for-hydrogen-compounds-for-high-temperature-superconductivity"},"modified":"2021-12-13T14:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T22:23:31","slug":"new-crystal-structure-for-hydrogen-compounds-for-high-temperature-superconductivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/new-crystal-structure-for-hydrogen-compounds-for-high-temperature-superconductivity","title":{"rendered":"New crystal structure for hydrogen compounds for high-temperature superconductivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-crystal-structure-for-hydrogen-compounds-for-high-temperature-superconductivity3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Superconductivity is the disappearance of electrical resistance in certain materials below a certain temperature, known as \u201ctransition temperature.\u201d The phenomenon has tremendous implications for revolutionizing technology as know it, enabling low-loss power transmission and maintenance of electromagnetic force without electrical supply. However, superconductivity usually requires extremely low temperatures ~ 30 K (the temperature of liquid nitrogen, in comparison, is 77 K) and, therefore, expensive cooling technology. To have a shot at realizing a low-cost superconducting technology, superconductivity must be achieved at much higher transition temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>Materials scientists have had a breakthrough on this front with crystalline materials containing hydrogen, known as \u201cmetal hydrides.\u201d These are compounds formed by a metal atom bonded with hydrogen that have been predicted and realized as suitable candidates for achieving even room-temperature superconductivity. However, they require extremely high pressures to do so, limiting their practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study published in <i>Chemistry of Materials<\/i>, a group of researchers led by Professor Ryo Maezono from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) performed <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/computer+simulations\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">computer simulations<\/a> to expand the search for high-temperature superconductors, looking for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/potential+candidates\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">potential candidates<\/a> among ternary hydrides (hydrogen combined with two other elements).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superconductivity is the disappearance of electrical resistance in certain materials below a certain temperature, known as \u201ctransition temperature.\u201d The phenomenon has tremendous implications for revolutionizing technology as know it, enabling low-loss power transmission and maintenance of electromagnetic force without electrical supply. However, superconductivity usually requires extremely low temperatures ~ 30 K (the temperature of liquid [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132339","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}